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1. The Thinking Heart

   Three levels of psychoanalytic therapy with disturbed children

   By Anne Alvarez

   How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Autism and Personality

   Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop

   Edited by Anne Alvarez, Susan Reid

   Taking a psychoanalytic and developmental approach, Autism and Personality outlines in considerable detail the new developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team and Workshop to treat autistic children. It also underlines the importance of support for parents and siblings,...

   Published June 16th 1999 by Routledge
3. Live Company

   Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children

   By Anne Alvarez

   Children whose minds as well as bodies have been damaged by the intrusions of sexual abuse, violence or neglect, and others, quite different, who are handicapped by their own mysterious sensitivities to more minor deprivations, may experience a type of black despair and cynicism that require...

   Published July 1st 1992 by Routledge