Ann Horne trained in the Independent tradition at the BAP. She has discovered that retirement (after 10 years latterly at the Portman Clinic, London) can become very crowded and makes occasional sorties from behind the keyboard to speak and teach in the UK and abroad.

• CHAPTER ONE Dialogues with parents CHAPTER TWO Therapeutic space for re-creating the child in the mind of the parents CHAPTER THREE Keeping the child in mind: thoughts on work with parents of children in therapy CHAPTER FOUR Parental therapy-in theory and practice CHAPTER FIVE Work with parents of psychotic children within a day-care therapeutic unit setting CHAPTER SIX Working with parents of autistic children CHAPTER SEVEN Helping children through treatment of parenting: the model of mother/infant psychotherapy CHAPTER EIGHT Working with parents of sexually abused children.