UNTYING THE KNOT: WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND PARENTS [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]

BRAFMAN, A. H.

ISBN 10: 1855752557 / ISBN 13: 9781855752559

Published by Karnac Books, London, 2001

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8vo. pp vii, 166. Pale blue covers with black and white illustration. Inscribed by the author to psychotherapists Judith and Geoffrey Elkan. ISBN: 1855752557 Very good, slightly faded at spine with small nick.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: UNTYING THE KNOT: WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND PARENTS [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]
• Publisher: Karnac Books, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855752557
• ISBN 13: 9781855752559
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Untying The Knot sets out to present a clinical approach to cases where the referred patient is a child or adolescent, but in which the parents are intimately involved in the therapeutic situation.Three fundamental principles inform the work: firstly, that early experience influences present lives; secondly, that unconscious feelings and fantasies are elements which shape everyday conscious experience; and thirdly, that the interaction of children and parents leads to patterns which become self-perpetuating and make it virtually impossible to define what is cause and what is effect in their relationship.The author acknowledges the pioneering work of Donald Winnicott in the treatment of children, emphasizing particularly his refusal to be bound by rigid notions of treatment modalities, but instead to go to the heart of the matter - an understanding of the child's own confusion and pain, and then, through its elucidation and expression, to bring relief.

About the Author

A. H. Brafman trained as a psychoanalyst of adults and children. In his NHS career he worked as a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and for many years ran a group for parents and under-fives. He ran Infant Observation courses at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and also seminars on psychodynamic work with children, adolescents and adults for the British Society of Psychoanalysis and several other training organizations. He was also Honorary Lecturer at University Hospital Medical School, where he taught students and psychotherapy trainees. He has published a number of books, including 'Untying the Knot', 'Fostering Independence: Helping and Caring in Psychodynamic Therapies', and 'The Language of Drawings: A New Finding in Psychodynamic Work'.