Description: For school professionals seeking to work in emotionally focused ways with children, this book offers a wide range of essays illustrating how psychodynamic ideas can be used to validate children, respect the contexts of their communities, and create nonauthoritarian classrooms ...
Brief description: Howard H. Covitz, PhD, ABPP has combined the practice of psychoanalysis in the suburbs of Philadelphia with a variety of other interests. He has taught university-level Mathematics, Psychology, and Biblical Characterology (1968-2011), was Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Studies Institute and Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, and its Director (1986-1998). He also ran a school for disturbed inner city adolescents in the 1970's. His Oedipal Paradigms in Collision (1998, reissued in 2016) was nominated for Gradiva Book of the Year Award. His connectedness to wife, grown children, and grandchildren motivate his writing and thinking.
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"Lombardi includes a truly lovely description of a school program, organized by a philosophy professor, that recognizes small children as the philosophers they can be. ... Many clinicians will find this book enriching. For psychoanalysts, who believe that we have knowledge and skills with wide applications to the most entrenched social problems, this book will be both an inspiration and a guide to creative thinking about education." --Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
"Michael O'Loughlin is one of the wisest persons I know. He is brilliant and this book will enlighten many people. It is highly readable and it delivers a number of profound findings. I highly recommend it to lay readers and professionals. Students will find it highly informative and easy to read." --Conrad P. Pritscher Ph.D, Bowling Green State University