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The language of distress : understanding a child's behaviour / A. H. Brafman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brafman, A. H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child psychiatry--Case studies.
- Child psychiatry.
- Child mental health.
- Child analysis--Case studies.
- Child analysis.
- Child mental health--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book describes a series of cases where the child's presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that the child expects the parents to understand and help him or her to overcome. The parents' interpretation of the child's symptoms cannot but be influenced by their own previous life experiences and if their eventual response does not meet the child's anxiety, the child feels misunderstood and the physical complaint remains unchanged. When seeing child and parents in a consultation, an attempt is made to discover the unconscious fantasy that underlies the presenting physical complaint, and also to investigate what led the parents to approach their child in the particular manner that, in practice, perpetuated the symptom. The proposal is put forward that the symptom can be seen as a language, a manner of expressing an underlying emotional anxiety. Once the therapist formulates this message in words the child can understand, and helps the parents to understand their response to the child, it becomes possible for the parents to approach the child in a more effective manner - and the symptom disappears. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Jeremy 1
- Andrew 9
- Thomas 19
- Charles 23
- Paul 29
- Claude 35
- Wendy 45
- Dorothy 49
- Jane 55
- Leon 69
- Eve 81
- Jennifer 85
- Diana 91
- Alex 95
- Angela 99
- Henry 107
- Peter 113
- Gloria 117
- Carol 121
- Mandy 133
- Fatima 143
- Daniel 153
- Peter 157
- Mark 159
- Summing up 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782204077
- 1782204075
- OCLC:
- 948839724
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