Daws, Dilys and Sutton, Sarah (2020) Parent-infant psychotherapy for sleep problems: Through the night. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 978-0-367-18782-8

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Abstract

Sleep problems are among the most common, urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over 40 years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together. Offering tried and tested ways of helping parents work things out better with their babies when such problems arise, this new edition of Dilys Daws’ classic work, updated with expert help from Sarah Sutton, frees professionals from the burden of feeling they need to rush to give advice to families, showing instead how to begin the challenging journey of discovering new emotions that every baby brings. It sheds light on the sleep problem in the context of a whole range of aspects of the early world: the regulation of babies’ physiological states; dreams and nightmares; the development of separateness; separation and attachment problems; and connections with feeding and weaning. This much-needed, compassionate and well-informed guide to helping parents and babies with sleep problems draws on twenty-first century development research and rich clinical wisdom to offer ways of understanding sleep problems in each individual family context, with all its particular pressures and possibilities. It will be treasured by new parents struggling with sleeplessness and is enormously valuable for anyone working with parents and their babies.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	Click on 'Blog' by the Related URLs heading below to read John Launer's book review.
Subjects:	Children, Young People and Developmental Pyschology > Child Psychotherapy Children, Young People and Developmental Pyschology > Babies Families > Parent Child Relations/Parenthood
Department/People:	Visiting Lecturer
Related URLs:	Blog
URI:	https://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/id/eprint/2467

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