Psychotherapy With Severely Deprived Children

About the author

Mary Boston was a child psychotherapist and senior tutor at the Tavistock Clinic. She worked formerly at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, where she was particularly interested in work with pre-school children, and has written on current research in child development. She was co-editor with Dilys Daws of 'The Child Psychotherapist and the Problems of Young People' (1977).Rolene Szur was the principle child psychotherapist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and a senior tutor at the Tavistock Clinic. At the hospital she worked in a family consultation team concerned with problems of child abuse and the issues of child care and custody. She was concerned with with the emotional welfare of patients in intensive care units and other paediatric wards.

Summary

This book draws on the experience of some eighty severely deprived children referred for individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy to the Tavistock and other clinics and schools in the London area. It describes how child psychotherapists found themselves treating the severely deprived children.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Boston, Mary Szur Boston, Rolene Sezur
• Assisted by: Mary Boston (Editor), Boston Mary (Editor), Rolene Szur (Editor), Szur Rolene (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367324957
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32495-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Child and Adolescent Studies