Susan Isaacs - A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

About the author

Philip Graham is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Institute of Child Health, London, where he was Dean from 1985 to 1990. He was a consultant psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London for many years. He has long-standing interests both in education and in psychological treatments for disturbed children and adolescents.

Summary

Susan Isaacs work was groundbreaking in the professional fields of education, psychoanalysis and psychology. She also had a strong influence on the way middle-class mothers brought up their young children in the pre-Spock era of the nineteen thirties in Britain by acting as an agony aunt: answering readers questions in the "Nursery World,"

Product details

• Authors: Philip Graham, Graham Philip
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367327200
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32720-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Child and Adolescent Studies