Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - Adolescent

Keeping the Baby in Mind builds on the expanding evidence pointing to the crucial importance of parents in facilitating their baby s development, and brings together expert contributors to examine a range of innovative psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions that are currently being used to support parents and their infants. It not only provides an overview of the many projects that are now available but also makes recommendations for future practice and the way in which children s services are organised.

The book brings together interventions and ways of working...

Every day each of us experiences the marketing power and influence of a widely recognized brand name. When we use Coke as a synonym for cola products, or Kleenex to mean tissue, we reinforce the power of these brands. It is no surprise, then, that companies with established brand names protect and nurture them, and that companies without brand names continuously strive to build them. Many have theorized about the most effective way to establish a popular brand. Seldom, however, have the owners of the world's leading brands given their views on the subject. In this volume, successful brand...

Why, when and how does aggression go wrong?

How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violence

Aggression is a part of human nature that energises our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to master our world. More often, we focus on its more destructive aspects, such as the violence individuals inflict on themselves or others and overlook the positive functions of aggression.

In Aggression and Destructiveness Celia Harding brings together contributions from experienced psychoanalysts and...

"Winnicott was a healer with the qualities of a parent, a magician, a teacher, a poet and a friend. The editors of this book have done a great service in collecting and arranging papers dating from the experiences of the evacuation in the Second World War up to some of Winnicott s continued explorations of his own philosophy" - The British Medical Journal

D. W. Winnicott was one of the giants of child psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development and their...