"Untying The Knot" sets out to present a clinical approach to cases where the referred patient is a child or adolescent, but in which the parents are intimately involved in the therapeutic situation. Dr Brafman emphasizes the refusal to be bound by rigid notions of treatment modalities, and to go to the heart of the matter--an undestanding of the child's own confusion and pain, and then, through its elucidation and expression, to bring relief.
"Untying The Knot" sets out to present a clinical approach to cases where the referred patient is a child or adolescent, but in which the parents are ...
This book is based on questions that all parents have about their children and that they might want to ask a childcare professional, if they were given the chance. Children's relationships with their parents, their relationship with siblings and outside world are discussed in detail as well as questions on what is normal behaviour and when help should be sought. There are no set rules for raising children but certain situations might be better resolved after learning about other similar cases and hearing a professional's advice. Drawing from his extensive experience as a child...
This book is based on questions that all parents have about their children and that they might want to ask a childcare professional, if they were give...
Freud's psychoanalysis and its original representative in the UK, the British Psychoanalytic Society, have gone through unavoidable developments over the decades of their existence. We now have innumerable organizations training professionals in very diverse forms of psychodynamic therapies and it can be difficult to recognize the original sources of their theories and practices.
This multiplication of trainings has led to an ever-increasing number of theoretical postulates that have come to be adopted as dogmas. Examples are transference and counter-transference, negative...
Freud's psychoanalysis and its original representative in the UK, the British Psychoanalytic Society, have gone through unavoidable developments over ...
The book describes a series of cases where the child's presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that the child expects the parents to understand and help him or her overcome. The parents' interpretation of the child's symptoms cannot but be influenced by their own previous life experiences and if their eventual response does not meet the child's anxiety, the child feels misunderstood and the physical complaint remains unchanged. It can also happen that the parents' interpretation of the symptoms reinforces the child's belief of carrying a serious...
The book describes a series of cases where the child's presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that the ...
