Using Self Psychology in Child Psychotherapy: The Restoration of the Child (Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity) - Hardcover

Miller, Jule P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568214928 ISBN 13: 9781568214924

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996

Synopsis

Shows how self psychology allows child patients who were in the past often considered difficult and even untreatable to be understood and effectively helped.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Emphasizing the fragility of the developing self and the need for empathic selfobjects, Heinz Kohut revolutionized psychodynamic psychotherapy. His ideas changed the thinking and practice of every therapist. Curiously, this revolution did not extend to child psychotherapy. Now, Dr. Jule Miller III brings Kohut's therapeutic understanding and techniques to child work. Dr. Miller builds on Kohut's legacy, emphasizing each child's powerful, creative forces that push toward healthy self development, and brings new understanding to trauma and developmental arrest. In this book you will read about Jimmy, a 2-year-old who was expelled from preschool and almost put out of his home; Adam, a 2-year-old who hid in the bathroom while he heard his mother being raped; Allen, a 5-year-old who persistently climbed to the roof of his house, punched holes in walls, and talked about killing himself; William, an 11-year-old whose life was dominated by his younger brother's chronic illness and his mother's psychiatric hospitalization; and Leanna, a 16-year-old who had been abandoned by her parents and sexually abused for three years. Each of these cases is presented from the initial diagnostic interview to termination. In addition, other case vignettes are used to illustrate specific points. Dr. Miller brings Kohut's theory of the self to the treatment of children and adolescents, enabling therapists to heal a patient's self while it is still in the process of forming.

About the Author:

Jule Miller III, M.D., is a child psychiatrist in private practice in Biloxi, Mississippi. He graduated from St. Louis Universtiy School of Medicine, where he also completed his general psychiatry residency and child psychiatry fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1568214928
• ISBN 13: 9781568214924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368