The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 41 (The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Se) - Hardcover

Laurence Spurling is a practising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in London and a Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. He is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he co-ordinates and teaches on the counselling and psychotherapy training programmes, and is a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist for the East London NHS Mental Health Trust. He has published widely on clinical issues.

Contents:EditorialMaternal Ambivalence by Rozsika ParkerThere is no Such Thing as a Mother by Lucy KingThe Good-Enough Mother and the Use of the Object in Women by Christina WielandMothers, Mirrors and Masks by Val RichardsThe Poetics of Intimacy: A review of Christopher Bollas's "Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience by James S. GrotsteinWinnicott BookshelfContributors to this Issue