Growing Up

Co-edited by Henri Parens and Salman Akhtar, this volume looks back on more than half a century of hands-on work in child development. Its contributors revisit the theories that shape how clinicians understand growing children, drawing on psychoanalytic ideas, separation-individuation theory, and their own clinical experience.

The chapters also consider how trauma and neurodevelopmental disorders can affect the bond between mother and child, and how trauma can pass from one generation to the next.

The book is intended for scholars and practitioners working in psychoanalysis, child development, and clinical psychology.