You and Your Toddler

by Jenny Stoker

Overview

A central theme of this book is the gradual process of separation between parents and toddlers and the growth of autonomy in them all. The author has written with clarity, sympathy and warmth about the multiple problems children face in their toddler years and she has addressed the parents with immense empathy. The author manages to co

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367329952
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Series:	The Karnac Developmental Psychology Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jenny Stoker is a psychoanalyst who works with adults and children. She is a member of staff at the Anna Freud Centre and has run a parent-toddler group there for many years. In the past she has worked for the NHS in an outpatient psychotherapy department. She contributes both to academic journals and to magazines for parents and allied professionals. She teaches students at the Anna Freud Centre and has been a seminar leader for the series of introductory lectures at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

series editor's foreword — introduction — on the threshold: from your arms to their feet — conflicting passions — learning about their mind and yours — play and language — whose body is it anyway? — separations, sleeping, and sibling rivalry — toddling no more: the move towards the wider world

Editorial Reviews

"Readers will find Stoker's clear, straightforward, and engaging presentation a refreshing and reassuring read. Those schooled in classic psychoanalytic theory's harsh criticism of mothers will find Stoker's contemporary interpretation of psychoanalytic theory refreshing, because she casts the challenging exchanges between parents and toddlers as ultimately and evolutionarily adaptive rather than pathological…Short of a baby translator, Stoker's book gives us many clues into the deeply rooted psychological forces behind toddler's behavior."

PsycCRITIQUES

"Readers will find Stoker's clear, straightforward, and engaging presentation a refreshing and reassuring read. Those schooled in classic psychoanalytic theory's harsh criticism of mothers will find Stoker's contemporary interpretation of psychoanalytic theory refreshing, because she casts the challenging exchanges between parents and toddlers as ultimately and evolutionarily adaptive rather than pathological…Short of a baby translator, Stoker's book gives us many clues into the deeply rooted psychological forces behind toddler's behavior."

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