Great psychologists as parents : does knowing the theory make you an expert? / by David Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, David, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child rearing--Psychological aspects.

Child rearing.

Parents.

Psychologists.

Physical Description:

150 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children and the way they did it themselves. Did the experts practise what they preached? Using an eclectic variety of sources, from letters, diaries, autobiographies, biographies, as well as material from interviews, each chapter focuses on a key figure in historical context. There are many surprises. Was Piaget, the greatest child psychologist of the twentieth century, the only man to try to psychoanalyse his mother? How many sons of great gurus have had to rescue their father from a police station as R.D. Laing's son did? And why did Melanie Klein's daughter wear red shoes the day her mother died? The book covers Charles Darwin, the first scientist to study child psychology methodically psychoanalysists such as Freud and Jung and founders of developmental psychology including Piaget and Bowlby as well as Dr Spock. It gives a vivid, dramatic and often entertaining insight into the family lives of these great psychologists. It highlights their ideas and theories alongside their behaviour as parents, and reveals the impact of their parenting on their children. Close bonds, fraught relationships and family drama are described against a backdrop of scientific development as the discipline of psychology evolves. Great Psychologists as Parents will be absorbing reading for students in childhood studies, education and psychology and practitioners in psychology and psychoanalysis. It will also interest general readers looking for a parenting book with a difference. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The first child psychologist / Charles Darwin

A behaviourist's tragedies / John B Watson

The man who analysed his daughter in secret / Sigmund Freud

The archetypal prick, a provocative title / Carl Jung

Melanie Klein and her daughter

Piaget : his mother and psychoanalysis

Benjamin Spock : the conservative radical

John Bowlby, the man with the bowler hat

The man who caged his daughters / BURRHUS SKINNER

Violence in the family / R.D Laing

Carl Rogers and unconditional personal regard

The good enough psychologist?

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cohen, David, 1946- author. Great psychologists as parents.

ISBN:

9781138899902

1138899909

9781138899919

1138899917

OCLC:

961151796