Based on work done with teachers at the Tavistock Clinic in London, this book aims to be of help to teachers at every level of the education system from infant to tertiary.

This edition has been revised and updated to include more material specifically related to work with schools. It reflects the major changes in society, in legislation and in the nature of the interaction between families and the education system in the last decade. The contributors all have links with the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic and include educational psychologists working with schools and hospitals, family therapists, child and family psychiatrists and teachers.

The authors - who are experienced teachers and analysts - examine the ways in which Kleinian and psyhoanalytic ideas can be put to work in the classroom. The role of phantasy in the student-teacher relationship receives detailed attention.