Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents: Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts

Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescentsconveys the experiences of severely emotionally disturbed children in detailed accounts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores the life and death struggles against severe self-harm to body and mind by the most distressed sections of adolescents. Illustrated by clinical material, chapters cover subjects including: * the inpatient therapeutic setting * family rehabilitation after physical abuse * the adoptive father * work with adolescent inpatients with spina bifida. Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescentsunderlines the value of intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a coherent method of treatment in even the most severe cases of emotional disturbance.

Denis Flynn is a Child Psychotherapist and is now Head of the Inpatient Adolescent Unit at The Cassel Hospital, London.