Oedipus Yourself!: Consultations with a Child Psychiatrist
Publisher
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Éditions Anne Carrière
Parution date
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2000
EAN
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9782843371103
Description
Should we tell children the real truth about their origins? What is sibling rivalry? How is sexual identity formed? What purpose do symptoms serve and should they always be treated? To these questions and to many others, Marcel Rufo delivers concrete answers, the fruit of thirty-five years of practice as a child psychiatrist. Far from abstract theorizing, he demonstrates through individual case studies how children and adolescents tend to express pain and helplessness through their actions and their behavior, since they are as yet unable to express these adequately in words. While many in the field believe that negative behavioral patterns are played out and should be addressed and corrected well before the age of six, Dr. Rufo demonstrates that to the contrary, no diagnosis is etched in stone. Everything, in his view, should be allowed to play itself out no matter how difficult or painful the experience to both parent and child. To this renowned specialist, each patient, no matter how young, is a real person, free and unique, able to make their own connections and associations on a path to self-discovery. A must-read, full of warmth and humor, for all parents wishing to find the keys to better understanding their children.
Author
Marcel Rufo : Professor Marcel Rufo is a psychoanalyst as well as a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry. He currently works as a child psychiatrist at Sainte-Marguerite hospital in Marseille, and is recognized as one of the best and most well-known specialists on childhood and adolescence.
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