On Children Who Privilege the Body

Ann Horne was head of the Independent child psychotherapy training and post-graduate development at the BAP (now IPCAPA). She is co-editor of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and of the four earlier books in this series. Now retired, she gives talks and writes, retaining a special interest in children who act with the body rather than reflect.

Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the psychotherapeutic process with severely neglected and traumatised children

Monica Lanyado

Contents

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Foreword – Peter Wilson

Introduction

Chapter 1 ‘The far reaching consequences of neglect and trauma in childhood.’

Chapter 2 ‘The historical and social context: influences on the treatment of severely neglected and traumatised children today’.

Chapter 3. ‘The absence of ‘holding’ and containment, and the absence of parental protection’.

Chapter 4. ‘Complex traumatic childhood losses: mourning and acceptance, endings and beginnings.’

Chapter 5. ‘Playing out not acting out. The development of the capacity to play in the therapy of children who are ‘in transition’ from fostering to adoption.’ (2008)

Chapter 6. ‘The playful presence of the therapist: ‘antidoting’ defences in the therapy of a late adopted adolescent patient’ (2006)

Chapter 7. ‘Transition and change: An exploration of the resonances between transitional and meditative states of mind and their role in the therapeutic process.’ (2012)

Chapter 8. ‘The impact of listening on the listener. Consultation to the helping professions who work with sexually abused young people’. (2009)

Chapter 9. ‘Transforming despair to hope in the treatment of extreme trauma: a view from the supervisor’s chair’ (2016)

Appendix - Publications

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