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Educational Role of the Family: A Psychoanalytical Model
Author(s): Donald Meltzer (Author)
- Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
- Publication Date: 28 Feb. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780491409
- ISBN-13: 9781780491400
Book Description
A unique psychoanalytic perspective on family patterns and cultural educability, originally commissioned by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programmes that would support families in their educational task. The book integrates a psychoanalytical theory of learning with an ecological conception of how the various systems involved in the educational process are interconnected, and as such is still of great present-day relevance, both to clinical and educational practitioners and to policy-makers. It has been extensively used in many countries by therapists, teachers, teacher-trainers and social workers.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Owing to its integration of a psychoanalytical theory of learning with an ecological conception of how the various systems involved in the educational processes are interconnected, it is still of great present day relevance, both to practitioners working in conditions of great complexity and to policy-makers. –Martina Campart, Psychologist, senior lecturer in social work at Malmö University, Sweden
It is a splendid example of how the unique view of life afforded by psychoanalysis, together with observation, intuition, and deep contact and commitment to other members of the community, can offer a way of illuminating the complexities of the interaction between individuals and society. –Clara Nemas, Psychoanalyst, Buenos Aires, Argentina
About the Author
Donald Meltzer (1923 – 2004) is widely known as a psychoanalyst and teacher throughout Europe and South America. He is the author of many works on psychoanalytic theory and practice, including The Psychoanalytical Process, Sexual States of Mind, Explorations in Autism, The Kleinian Development, Dream Life, Studies in Extended Metapsychology, and The Claustrum, all published by Karnac Books. Martha Harris (1919-1987) read English at University College London and then Psychology at Oxford. She taught in a Froebel Teacher Training College and was trained as a Psychologist at Guys Hospital, as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she was for many years responsible for the child psychotherapy training in the department of Children and Families, and as a Psychoanalyst at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. Together with her first husband Roland Harris (a teacher) she started a pioneering schools counselling service. With her second husband Donald Meltzer she wrote a psychoanalytical model of The Child in the Family in the Community for multidisciplinary use in schools and therapeutic units.
