An Independent Mind

Ann Horne was head of the Independent child psychotherapy training and post-graduate development at the BAP (now IPCAPA). She is co-editor of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and of the three earlier books in this series. Now retired, she gives talks and writes, retaining a special interest in children who act with the body rather than reflect.

Included are Juliet Hopkins most important papers on psychoanalytic theory, family and individual approaches, attachment theory and infant-parent work.

Daws, Foreword. Horne, Introduction. Part I: Trauma and child psychotherapy. Lanyado, Introduction. Solving the Mystery of Monsters: Steps Towards the Recovery From Trauma. Living Under the Threat of Death. The Impact of a Congenital Illness on an 8 Year Old Boy. The Role of Trauma in the Development of a Borderline State and a Foot-and-Shoe Fetish in a 6-Year-Old Girl. Part II: Attachment and Child Psychotherapy. Horne, Introduction. The Observed Infant of Attachment Theory. Failure of the Holding Relationship: Some Effects of Physical Rejection on the Child's Attachment and on His Inner Experience. Facilitating the Development of Intimacy Between Nurses and Infants in a Day Nursery. Overcoming a Child's Resistance to Late Adoption: How One New Attachment Can Facilitate Another. Part III: Infant-parent psychotherapy. Horne, Introduction. Infant Parent Psychotherapy: Selma Fraiberg's Contribution to Understanding the Past in the Present. Therapeutic Interventions in Infancy. Crying Babies: Who is Crying About What? Part IV: Integrating and exploring Winnicott. Lanyado, Introduction. The Dangers and Deprivations of Too-Good Mothering. From Baby Games to Let's Pretend: The Achievement of Playing. Narcissistic Illusions in Late Adolescence: Defensive Kleinian Retreats or Winnicottian Opportunities?