The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working With Children's Emotional Lives

The purpose of this volume is to offer very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. This book, then, is designed precisely for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that embrace context, and that privilege imagination and possibility. Hopefully, for professionals who already practice in ways that are sympathetic to these modes of working, the scholarly underpinning of this work will offer a rationale for taking a stand in favor of emotionally-focused, child-centered work and in opposition to systems that negate the lives of children. This book then is for caring professionals who devote their lives to creating spaces for children to find their own paths and is intended to serve as a source of sustenance and support for such work.