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.

Reviews

"For those familiar with this area of work, it is like reading a 'a state of the art' view on the exciting integration of developmental psychology, neuroscience and developmental psychopathology, as experienced by the clinician in the consulting room" - Monica Lanyado, Young Minds Vol 63 2003

"Like the thinking and teaching of Anne Alvarez, this collection of essays is rich in content, multi-faceted and extremely rewarding... The depth and breadth of Being Alive are reflected in the professional backgrounds of its contributors, practitioners in psychoanalytic child psychotherapy and child and adult analysis, and teachers, academics and researchers of psychoanalytic theory and related field, spanning three continents, Europe, the USA and Australia... it is a testimony to Alvarez's great gift for giving life to ideas." - Graham Shulman (currently also editor of JCP), International Journal of Infant Observation, Vol 6 No 2, 2003-4

'Anne Alvarez's work has been extremely influential, and well deserves this volume. Her work is very much "of the moment" and speaks to an openness and exploratory mood that is developing.' - Susan Kegerreis, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and tutor on the Psychodynamic Counselling course at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

"For those familiar with this area of work, it is like reading a 'a state of the art' view on the exciting integration of developmental psychology, neuroscience and developmental psychopathology, as experienced by the clinician in the consulting room" - Monica Lanyado, Young Minds Vol 63 2003

"The appeal of this book will have different starting points. For some readers it will be a primer for Live Company, but for others it will be a companion piece to enable still deeper and wider reflection" - Trevor Lubbe, Journal Child Psychotherapy Vol 28 No 3, Dec 2002

"Like the thinking and teaching of Anne Alvarez, this collection of essays is rich in content, multi-faceted and extremely rewarding... The depth and breadth of Being Alive are reflected in the professional backgrounds of its contributors, practitioners in psychoanalytic child psychotherapy and child and adult analysis, and teachers, academics and researchers of psychoanalytic theory and related field, spanning three continents, Europe, the USA and Australia... it is a testimony to Alvarez's great gift for giving life to ideas." - Graham Shulman (currently also editor of JCP), International Journal of Infant Observation, Vol 6 No 2, 2003-4

"This book could be very useful both to clinicians struggling with their own severely disturbed patients as well as to others interested in understanding how exciting contemporary psychoanalytic theory can be in the context of other disciplines where new knowledge is rapidly expanding our understanding of the human mind" - Lynn Barnett, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Vol 8, Issue 3, 2003

"What comes across strikingly are ways in which different schools of thought are able to achieve rapprochement through models which take full account of the earliest stages of development." - Adrian Sutton, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Vol 20 Issue 1, March 2006

Book Information
ISBN 9781583911310
Author Judith Edwards
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Brunner-Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 440g