This book explores the patient-doctor relationship and shows how the psychodynamics of this relationship can provide information to aid treatment.

How do children and parents shape clinical practice? How can clinicians learn from the impact of their patients upon them? How do we recognise if health care pr

Developmental theory is the essence of any psychodynamic psychother apy, and certainly of psychoanalysis. It is through an understanding of progressive life eve

Shows that the belief is not erroneous: the very group of people who ought to be best prepared for raising sane, mature, "normal" children is reputed to fail on

This book is an encyclopedia of child analysis and analytically oriented psychotherapy.