If a person is struggling with feelings that involve pain or anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties affecting that person's capacity to express what torments him. Whatever the person's age, they very often have no access to the words that might convey their internal conflicts. People interacting with that person may believe he is deliberately refusing to express what affects him, but it is certainly true that most times this is not the case.
When dealing with children, these difficulties are even more acute. Many years ago it was found that children often...
If a person is struggling with feelings that involve pain or anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties affecting that person's capacity ...
The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's development. He is now ready to start full-time primary school, and we no longer speak of a baby or a little child; instead, we refer to the boy or the girl. Over the next five years, as his horizons become wider and his experiences outside the home increase exponentially, he seems to become more reserved; more difficult to approach and share things with. Sometimes, ordinary questions are ignored or responded to with some apparently unrelated answer. Occasionally, the child will move away even while someone is speaking to him....
The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's development. He is now ready to start full-time primary school, and we no longer spea...
This book is based on common questions that parents have about their children and their relationships with the world at large. Drawing from his extensive experience as a child psychoanalyst (and as a father), Dr Brafman offers his thoughts on widespread problems faced by parents in an innovative way: he focuses on how the child perceives the situat
This book is based on common questions that parents have about their children and their relationships with the world at large. Drawing from his extens...
In a series of papers, the author addresses the needs of students, patients, and practitioners of psychodynamic therapies. The work of these professionals with children and with adults is discussed from a pragmatic point of view, stressing the importance of recognizing the needs and capacities of each individual patient. At the same time, the autho
In a series of papers, the author addresses the needs of students, patients, and practitioners of psychodynamic therapies. The work of these professio...
This 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 to overcome. The parents' interpretation of the child's symptoms cannot but be influenced by their own previous life experiences and if
This 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...
