Extending Horizons

Miller, Sheila

• Introduction -- Patients, Families, and Treatment Approaches -- Intensive child psychotherapy: working with Matthew towards understanding -- Treatment-via-the-parent: a case of bereavement -- Exploration and therapy in family work -- Integrating individual and family therapy -- The Psychotherapy of Infancy -- Brief therapeutic work with parents of infants -- Infants’ sleep problems -- Joint psychotherapy with mother and child -- Some reflections on body ego development through psychotherapeutic work with an infant -- Patients Treated in Adolescence -- Thinking about adolescence -- Work with suicidal adolescents at a walk-in centre in Brent -- Work with ethnic minorities -- Special Areas of Work -- Physical and mental disability and disorder -- The triple burden -- Psychoanalytical psychotherapy with the severely, profoundly, and multiply handicapped -- What autism is and what autism is not -- Deprivation and damage -- An account of the psychotherapy of a sexually abused boy -- Psychotherapy with two children in local authority care -- Theory and Research -- The splitting image: a research perspective -- The role of psychotherapy in the care of diabetes in childhood -- Telling the child about adoption -- The strengths of a practitioner’s workshop as a new model in clinical research -- Beyond the unpleasure principle -- The emergence of Michael Fordham’s model of development: a new integration in analytical psychology -- The institution as therapist: hazards and hope -- Some notes on the contribution of Margaret Lowenfeld to child psychotherapy