Middle-Class Waifs: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Affectively Disturbed Children

by Elaine V. Siegel

Book Overview

In this volume, a well-known psychoanalyst, dance therapist, and educational consultant chronicles her clinical work with deeply troubled children who fall between the cracks of our diagnostic and educational systems. These children, who frequently turn out to have been sexually or punitively abused, have no real emotional home despite the fact that they live in materially comfortable circumstances. In spite of their apparent brightness and precocity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881630985
• ISBN13: 9780881630985
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"