Normal Child and Adolescent Development Anna Costantini and other practitioners caring for

and other practitioners caring for children and adolescents experiencing mental distress and mental illness

written in a consistent format and style for easy reference

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Each of the nine groups of research articles is accompanied by a commentary by a well-known authority

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Normal Child and Adolescent Development Anna Costantini and other practitioners caring forNormal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer presents a complete picture of mental development, informed by contemporary research and psychodynamic thinking. Dr. Gilmore and Dr. Meersand have taught human development to psychiatric residents, psychology doctoral students, and psychoanalytic candidates for more than a decade, and found an acute need for accessible material integrating recent findings in the psychodynamic literature