Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents

Denis Flynn is a Child Psychotherapist and is now Head of the Inpatient Adolescent Unit at The Cassel Hospital, London. He is a Member and Child Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and also works as a Psychoanalyst in private practice.

General Introduction: Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts, Central Concepts in Psychoanalytic Understanding. Part I: The Young Child. Internal Conflict and Growth in a Pre-school Child. Early Identifications in the Borderline Child. Part II: The Child in the Family. The Child's Experience of an Inpatient Therapeutic Setting. Family Rehabilitation After Physical Abuse. Challenges in Work with Emotional and Sexual Abuse. Mother-infant Work During Family Rehabilitation. The Adoptive Father. Part III: The Adolescent. A Group for Adolescent Inpatients with Spina Bifida. Psychoanalytic Theories of Adolescence. The Containment of Borderline Adolescents. The Eclipse of Adolescence: Assessment of Normal and Pathological Aspects.