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Title: True Pretences: Psychodynamic Work With the Lost, the Angry And the Depressed
Publisher: Troubador Pub
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1905237049
ISBN 13: 9781905237043
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good

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In True Pretences Barrie Biven explores the nature of suicide, pain, female perversion, sadomasochism and teenage runaways. The book includes a chapter on the psychoanalytic meaning of skin, with a footnote on the poet Sylvia Plath. Two controversial essays contrast the meanings of freedom and authority in the development of the delinquent character. Both essays question the prevailing attempts to rehabilitate these violent youngsters.

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Barrie Biven is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist who trained in London under Anna Freud. He was born in Humberstone, Leicester and was educated at the Alderman Newton Boys' School and the University of Sussex. Dr Biven served in the Royal Marines Commando as an Instructor in the Cliff Assault Wing before directing an experimental project working with street corner juvenile delinquents in London. He founded and co-directed with Josephine Klein a project in Brighton aimed at researching and meeting the needs of itinerant adolescents. In 1977 he and his wife moved to America to join the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he was Associate Director of the Child Analytic Study Program alongside Dr Humberto Nagera. He has been a consultant to the Detroit Psychiatric Institute, to the University of Capetown / Red Cross Hospital, Child and Family Unit, and since 1978 to the Instituto de Salud Mental, Monterrey, Mexico, where he continues to supervise and teach the trainees in Child Psychotherapy. Domiciled in the UK, Dr Biven retains a private practice in psychotherapy with adults, and conducts evaluations of adolescents for the courts.

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