This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.

Product Description: Book by Shore, Penny A., Leach, Penelope, Sears, William, Sears, Martha, Weininger, Otto (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book is actually variations on a theme - that infants and young children develop to their greatest potential when they have parents available who are able and willing to be there physically and emotionally.

Cuts through the jargon to give many clear and useful portrayals of work with destructive tendencies in a variety of contexts. Weininger has much to say about adults who seem to stall or lead life in reverse, and the many individuals who feel numb or dead and undo whatever they try to build.

Product Description: Professor Weininger elegantly reintroduces Kleinian thinking in a way that removes many of the stigmata that have impeded the receptivity to her work. Further more, he has unpacked and clarified some of her most recondite concepts such as the 'combined parental couple' and the early developmental aspects of the oedipal complex for girl as for boys...read more

Product Description: In this book Dr Weininger describes the uses made of a model of short-term therapy which takes the richness and complexity of the development of psychic life into account. The creative work with a small group of children, day students in a treatment centre for difficult young children, shows a new respect for the way a gradual introduction to short periods of a new type of atmosphere of treatment can over time have a profound and positive effect on the group...read more