Stella Acquarone began her pioneering career as a child psychotherapist and this book is based upon her observations and treatment of over 3,500 parents and their infants throughout several decades. With its roots in the major fields of psychology, emerging from developmental psychology, research in infancy and psychoanalysis of early life, she has created an exciting and ground-breaking new field of psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- infant-parent psychotherapy.
This is a comprehensive handbook full of vital information on the theory and practice of infant-parent psychotherapy, that will...

This book brings hope where despair has prevailed. It offers the prospect of early detection of prodromal signs of autism and the possibility of effective therapeutic mitigation.

Directed at the clinical practitioners who must build bridges between theory and practice, this book combines what we know with what we know that works, all for the betterment of the babies and their families. Early intervention is the treatment, the tool of the clinician, because it sits somewhere between prevention and acute care. The advances described in the book--from the medical, biological and...

The term -pre-autism- is becoming more widespread as a result of growing awareness of the importance of a child's first three years of life in diagnosing behaviors which, if untreated, can develop into autism. In this book we are shown the problems parents can experience when their young child does not respond to them in a -typical- way, how they often voice concerns that something is -not quite right- with their child, and how it is important to address these concerns, which may be signs of pre-autism.

This book is about a new approach called -Re-Start-, developed by Stella...

This book is about the hope underlying the ability to survive the early years.

Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is both metaphor and framework of the despair and hopelessness some babies and parents experience in their efforts to hold on and go through difficult circumstances. Their early experiences are not voyages -into a sunny and cheerful sea- some are years-long voyages into horror and weariness--babies born into difficult families, into countries in difficulties or into difficult circumstances.

Some babies born into difficulties are pretty much...