Following an analysis of the increasing problems faced by adolescents and their families, Dr. Easson discusses the evaluation and management of disturbing and disturbed adolescents from the viewpoint of the teenager, the family, the community, and the clinical staff. To deal pragmatically with teenage difficulties, Easson explains, parents and treating personnel need to use themselves as measuring and evaluating instruments as well as the primary therapeutic and management tools. He provides proven techniques for constant self monitoring, ongoing mutual awareness, and orderly communication in the hospital and residential setting. With an abundance of case material, he reviews the process of using this constantly changing data.

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With chapters written by psychoanalytic psychotherapists from across Europe, and from different analytic traditions, this book shows the common thread that weaves through these different traditions and the serious challenges facing psychotherapists dealing with the future adult generations of Europe.

The only comprehensive work on SED, with practical information on diagnosing and treating children with SED. Features contributions by leading experts of SED research and practice. Includes a foreword by Kay Jamison, a nationally recognized author on mental illness.

Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents conveys the experiences of severely emotionally disturbed children in detailed accounts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores the life and death struggles against severe self-harm to body and mind by the most distressed sections of adolescents. Illustrated by clinical material, chapters cover subjects including: * the inpatient therapeutic setting * family rehabilitation after physical, sexual and emotional abuse * the adoptive father * work with adolescent inpatients with spina bifida * assessment, treatment and clinical management of adolescent disturbance. Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents underlines the value of intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a coherent method of treatment in even the most severe cases of emotional disturbance. Psychotherapists, mental health workers, and social workers will find it a valuable resource for difficult work in a variety of contexts.