Being Alive

This book is a celebration of the work of Anne Alvarez, an enormously influential psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose work on autism and severe personality disorders in children has been important internationally. This book:<BR>* brings together assessment of the influence of Alvarez's work across a range of child psychotherapy and related areas<BR>* evaluates how her ideas affect the most current developments in these areas<BR>* includes contributions from renowned psychoanalysts and psychotherapists from around the world.<BR> It will be of great interest to child and adolescent psychotherapists in training and practice, and also to clinical psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists working with autistic/severely disturbed children.