Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez

By Judith Edwards

Book Overview

This book is a celebration of the work of Anne Alvarez, an enormously influential psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose work on autism and severe personality disorders in children has been important internationally. This book: * brings together assessment of the influence of Alvarez's work across a range of child psychotherapy and related areas * evaluates how her ideas affect the most current developments in these areas * includes contributions from renowned psychoanalysts and psychotherapists from around the world. It will be of great interest to child and adolescent psychotherapists in training and practice, and also to clinical psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists working with autistic/severely disturbed children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583911316
• ISBN13: 9781583911310
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"