New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy presents eleven new contributions to child psychoanalytic research, most of them based on the experience of the clinical consulting room. Each chapter is the work of an experienced child psychotherapist or child analyst, vivid in their description of the children and families they encountered. Their understanding of the "inner worlds" of patients and the clinical consulting room is clearly evidenced in their analysis of clinical presentations.
Key Features
- Contributions from experienced child psychotherapists and analysts.
- Focus on the clinical consulting room and the experiences within.
- Utilisation of rigorous qualitative research methods, including Grounded Theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
- Covers developments in child psychoanalytic knowledge, including autism and psychotherapy with severely deprived children.
- Advances in theories and methods with new forms of clinical service provision.
- Thorough evaluation of contested issues in psychoanalytic research.
Additional Information
The chapters describe developments in several fields, demonstrating how psychoanalytic research can be made more accountable and rigorous through the adaptation of established qualitative research methods to the study of unconscious mental phenomena. New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy will be an essential text in the field of child psychoanalysis and will be highly useful in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis training courses and for psychoanalytic researchers, as well as for practitioners.
