Thinking About Infants and Young Children: 5 (The Roland Harris Educational Trust library) - Hardcover

Harris, Martha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0902965050 ISBN 13: 9780902965058

Publisher: Karnac Books, 1975

Synopsis

This book describes some of the important aspects of the development of infants and young children from birth to school age. It is illustrated by vignettes of scenes between parents and children and it touches on many of the questions and feelings evoked by the intense emotional relationship between parents and children.

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Review

Martha Harris's book Thinking about Infants and Young Children is truly a seminal work. It remains as lively, insightful and relevant as Martha Harris was as a teacher. This is a book that has not dated. It has accompanied me in my professional work, from London to Melbourne, since 1975, as a valuable resource to me as both clinician and teacher of infant observation. --Ann Cebon, Psychoanalytic psychotherapist (Tavistock), Melbourne, Australia

What makes this book so attractive? Is it the way it raises problems without putting the blame on parents? Is it the deep understanding of children? Is it the simplicity of expression with which complicated and important issues are discussed? All these qualities made the book a great source of inspiration for me. --Miriam Botbol, Author, 'Bebé, Bienvenido al Mundo'; founder member of the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona, Spain

Psychic growth is a very complex process throughout childhood. There is no recipe for rearing a child, no good or bad way 'per se' to treat him. Parents must be able to observe each of their children and think about them individually. In limpid language, Martha Harris gives many wonderful illustrations of this way of 'observing and thinking'. --Didier Houzel, Psychoanalyst, professor of child psychiatry, a founder of the GERPEN mother-baby research group, Caen, France

About the Author

Martha Harris (1919-1987) read English at University College London and then Psychology at Oxford. She taught in a Froebel Teacher Training College and was trained as a Psychologist at Guys Hospital, as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she was for many years responsible for the child psychotherapy training in the department of Children and Families, and as a Psychoanalyst at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. Together with her first husband Roland Harris (a teacher) she started a pioneering schools counselling service. With her second husband Donald Meltzer she wrote a psychoanalytical model of The Child in the Family in the Community for multidisciplinary use in schools and therapeutic units.

Edition details

• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0902965050
• ISBN 13: 9780902965058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 89