This book increases the reader's understanding of violent children and the value and vicissitudes of their psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It explores various aspects of violence and the attendant emotional, psychological, biological, and social features in children.
Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction: the therapeutic work and theoretical framework -- Early life trauma and the psychogenesis and prevention of violence -- Violence in children -- The kick of life -- Violence and babies -- Non-retaliation: surviving a violent 5-year-old -- A little boy left alone -- Neutralizing terror -- Finding abused children’s voices: junior-school living nightmares