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Anne Alvarez - Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children - 9780415060974 - V9780415060974
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Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children

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Description for Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children Paperback. Anne Alverez integrates modern psychoanalytic theory with new findings in infant development and infant psychiatry to shed new light on ways of understanding autistic, psychotic and severely disturbed children and adolescents. Num Pages: 264 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMC; MJW; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.

Children whose minds as well as bodies have been damaged by the intrusions of sexual abuse, violence or neglect, and others, quite different, who are handicapped by their own mysterious sensitivities to more minor deprivations, may experience a type of black despair and cynicism that require long-term treatment and test the stamina of the psychotherapist to the utmost.
In Live Company, Anne Alvarez reflects on thirty years' experience of treating autistic, psychotic and borderline children and adolescents by the methods of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Central to the book is the moving story on an autistic child's long struggle between sanity and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415060974
SKU
V9780415060974
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Reviews for Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children
...exciting and challenging book... there is much to learn from this book for clinical practice and I recommend it wholeheartedly. - Midland Journal of Psychotherapy ...for anyone also working with distressed, depressed, depleted, or psychically arrested adult patients, the relevance and inspiration of this book will be immediately apparent. - British Journal of Psychotherapy ...painful, yet positive text... ... Read more

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