The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children

by Anne Alvarez

Book Overview

How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child?

The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live Company, Anne Alvarez' highly influential and now classic book about working with severely disturbed and damaged children. Building on 50 years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041555487X
• ISBN13: 9780415554879
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"