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Latency: The Golden Age of Childhood concerns the child's emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy years of child development and adolescence.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Body and Psyche in Latency
2. Latency: the Development of Thinking and Learning
3. Latency Children in Therapy
4. The Significance of Reading in the Latency Period
5. Consequences and Overview
About the author
Gertraud Diem-Wille is a training analyst for children, adolescents and adults at the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society (WPV) and the International Psychoanalytic Society (IPA). She has pioneered and supported the training in psychoanalytic observational approaches to training in psychoanalytic and educational fields in Austria. She is the Organising and Scientific Tutor of the Course "Psychoanalytic-orientated Parent-Infant- Psychotherapy" at the Viennese Psychoanalytic Academy of the WPV. She also works in a private practice. She is author of the books The Early Years of Life and Young Children and Their Parents.
Summary
Latency: The Golden Age of Childhood concerns the child’s emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy years of child development and adolescence.
