The Silent Child: Communication Without Words edited by Jeanne Magagna, Assistant Editor Michelle Scott. Published by Karnac, London, 2012; 366 pp; ￡39.99 paperback.

摘要

The Silent Child is a substantial collection of papers edited by Jeanne Magagna, a senior child and adolescent psychotherapist who is well known for her writings both on infant observation and the theories of psychoanalysis. In this collection Magagna shares with us the enormous depth of experience and thinking that she has gained over many years of impressive work in the treatment of hospitalized children's deep distress. She also gives us the opportunity to understand how the team of professionals work together at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Ellern Mede Centre in London, and to know more of the contribution made by disciplines other than psychotherapy.