Love & Rage: The Inner Worlds of Children

Love & Rage is a book about children both the child in those of us who are chronologically adult as well as the children we may be interacting with. It takes a reader for a journey into their inner world of intense raging emotions which often goes unheeded by the outside adult world. With the trained ear of a child psychotherapist the author listens to childrens stories as they emerge in her consulting room through word and play and translates them for adults. Supported by the authors own personal associations and a bedrock of psychodynamic theory the book throws light on what comes into a psychotherapists consulting room and demonstrates that it is not unusual bizarre or crazy. Instead it is the ordinary stuff of everyday life taking place in every family. That sometimes we all carry the pain of complex feelings within ourselves for all of our lives-love and rage towards the people we are closest to. This book is essential reading for anyone close to children-parents and parents-to-be teachers school counsellors-but also for anyone looking to attend to the child within them.