This text provides a broad-based look at development psychology in infancy and the implications for psychotherapeutic practice, by a well-known and highly-regarded author. The understanding and observation of infancy informs and enriches all areas of psychotherapy and Cathy Urwin is uniquely placed to combine a developmental psychology perspective with a psychotherapeutic one.The text takes a broad historical approach to the field, covering the key thinkers and the impact of their theories on current practice, thus offering an up-to-the minute and appealingly wide-ranging text for trainee and practising therapists. It is also relevant to students on social work, developmental psychology and sociology courses. --- from the publisher Contents: Introduction
The History of CHild Study and the Psychotherapy of Children
Sigmund Freud: The Foundation of Psychoanalysis
Anna Freud: The Symposium on Child Analysis
Melanie Klein: The Origins of Object Relations Theories
Donald Winnicott From Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis
Wilfred Bion: Work in the Counter-transference and Opening up The Borderline
John Bowlby: The Growth of Attachment Theory
The Impact of Contemporary Developmental Psychology and Neuroscience
Developments in Infant Observation: Defences, Symbol Formation and the Role of Languages
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