Main description:

Each chapter of the book addresses an issue or area of professional experience. Explores the possibilities for applying psychoanalytic theory when working with children in hospital, and how it can be extended to include parents, caregivers, health care staff and volunteers. Describes therapeutic interventions directed toward both children and parents.

Contents:

Introduction 1. The Basic Therapeutic Factor 2. Neonates, Pain, and Memory 3. The Different Times of Trauma and Its Intergenerational Transmission 4. Communicating the Diagnosis: The Fine Line Between Pain and Trauma 5. Child Psychoanalysis 6. A Child Psychoanalytic Treatment: The Irish Sky 7. Therapeutic Consultations with Parents of Young Children 8. Parent-child Consultations: Addiction to Liquids 9. Early Adolescence and Somatic Functional Disturbances 10. Variations of Sexual Differentiation: Disorders of Sex Development 11. Group Therapy with Parents, Children, and Adolescents 12. Anxiety Management Groups for Staff Members 13. Group Sessions with Volunteers: On Books and Reading in the Hospital | Concluding Reflections