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Authors: Margaret Rustin
ISBN-13: 9781855759015, ISBN-10: 1855759012
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Karnac Books
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Margaret Rustin

Margaret Rustin is Organizing Tutor of Child Psychotherapy Training, and Dean of Postgraduate Studies Maria Rhode is Tutor in Child Psychotherapy. Helene Dubinsky is Tutor in Child Psychotherapy. Alex Dubinsky Tutor in the Psychoanalytical Observational Studies Course. All are Child Psychotherapists and work at the Tavistock Clinic, London.

Book Synopsis

Developments in the understanding and psychotherapeutic treatment of children and adolescents suffering from psychotic levels of disturbance are dealt with in this work, from the Tavistock Clinic Series. The book is chiefly concerned with children troubled in their behaviour, relationships, and communication.

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	Theoretical Overview	5
	The Technique of Child Psychotherapy	27
Pt. I	Psychosis and Sexual Abuse
1	Finding a Safe Place: A Four-Year-Old Child's Recovery from Sexual Abuse	39
2	The Difficulty of Establishing a Space for Thinking: The Therapy of a Seven-Year-Old Girl	56
3	Survival of the Self: A Sixteen-Year-Old Girl's Search for a Good Object	71
	Discussion	89
Pt. II	Psychosis and Developmental Delay
4	The Beginnings of Mind: Psychotherapy of a Sexually Abused Six-Year-Old Girl	101
5	Symbolisation and the Sense of Identity	115
6	'Here I am!': Self and Object in a Developmentally Delayed Boy with Autistic Features	138
7	A Little Boy Who Did Not Want to Learn Anything	155
	Discussion	172
Pt. III	The Complexity of Psychotic States
8	Psychosis and Autism: Schizophrenic, Perverse and Manic-Depressive States During Psychotherapy	189
9	Jeremy and the Bitten Roof	212
10	'The Ghost is Coming': The Fear of Annihilation in a Nine-Year-Old Boy	221
11	Going to Pieces: Autistic and Schizoid Solutions	231
12	Rigidity and Stability in a Psychotic Patient: Some Thoughts about Obstacles to Facing Reality in Psychotherapy	245
	Discussion	261
	Postscript	267
	Glossary	271
	References	276
	Index	287

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