Description: A comprehensive text for the practicing psychotherapist, this is the first book to apply the communicative psycho-analytic method to the psychological treatment of children. The book has three parts: Part 1 explains the communicative theory of psychoanalysis of Robert Langs and teaches the rudiments of communicative clinical technique. It includes a new theory of transference, developed by the author, as well as a critique of traditional psychoanalysis. Part 2 takes place in the consultation rooms of five therapists -- in four countries of Europe and North America. The clinicians offer candid discussions of interventions with child patients of different cultural, linguistic and racial backgrounds. Detailed clinical examples demonstrate unique potency of communicative interpretations to alleviate suffering, psychosomatic symptoms and troublesome behaviour. Part 3 is a philosophical discussion of the fundamental nature of human experience. The author seeks an empirical answer to the enduring question, are we created equal? and finds a primeval shared component of what makes us human.

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