Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-243) and index.
Contents
General introduction -- Internal conflict and growth in a pre-school child -- Early identifications in the borderline child -- The child's experience of an inpatient therapeutic setting -- Family rehabilitation after physical abuse -- Challenges in work with emotional and sexual abuse -- Mother-infant work during family rehabilitation -- A group for adolescent inpatients with spina bifida -- Psychoanalytic theories of adolescence -- The containment of borderline adolescents -- The eclipse of adolescence : assessment of normal and pathological aspects.