When A Child Grieves: Psychoanalytic Understanding and Technique

Corinne Masur's book "When a Child Grieves" provides an in-depth overview of psychoanalytic theories on children's mourning and demonstrates that children can and do mourn. It offers guidelines for evaluation and treatment and includes a poignant case history of a three-year-old who lost his father to suicide. The book is a valuable resource for professionals working with bereaved children.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2021
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

For many years, the debate has raged as to whether children are capable of embarking on a true mourning process. In "When a Child Grieves," Corinne Masur provides an excellent overview of the myriad psychoanalytic theories on the subject and demonstrates conclusively that children can and do mourn. She describes how children and adolescents experience grief and how the mourning process can go awry. Dr. Masur provides ample guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents struggling with their grief, alongside a multitude of clinical examples to illustrate her salient points. One detailed and poignant case history is returned to throughout the book, that of a three-year-old who lost his father to suicide.

This sensitive and important work fills a void in the literature and will become a key text for trainees and qualified psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, clinicians, and other professionals working with bereaved children.

Weight: 410g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912691937