Separation and Creativity: Refinding the Lost Language of Childhood (The Lacanian Clinical Field)

Pioneer child therapist Mannoni is best known for founding a residential community for severely troubled children at Bonneuil. Here she explores the role of artistic creativity and play in the treatment of childhood trauma. She draws on both Winnicott and the American tradition of child analysis, and integrates them with her own Lacanian theoretical model. She also shows how the traumatic childhoods of such writers as Edith Wharton, Edgar Allen Poe, and Hans Christian Anderson affected their adult work. The original Amour, haine, sTparation was published by +ditions Denoel in 1993. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)