The Caspari Journal: Contents
Browse the contents of publications of Caspari's Journal from 2001 - 2023
Jenny Dover and Lee Marsden - Gillian Salmon
An appreciation
Gillian Salmon - The Primary Years
A tribute to its author
Mary Sue Moore - Traumatic (D) Attachment Relationships
Not disorganised but amygdala-organised
Ingrid Cleaver - Learning Begins Long Before Children Arrive at School
A brief exploration of certain developmental theories and links to learning in Educational Psychotherapy
Katy Singer Once Upon a Time...
The use of free storytelling in Educational Psychotherapy
Ángela Palacios - Overcoming Cultural, Linguistic and Emotional Barriers within the Therapeutic Space
A research proposal
Book Reviews
Affect and Emotion: A brief psychoanalytic tour
by Graham Music. Reviewed by Lynsey Daniels
How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy
by Tamsin Cottis. Reviewed by Rosie Chester
Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools:
Tavistock Approaches
ed. Katie Argent. Reviewed by Rosie Davies
Graham Music - Observation, Attention and Awareness: Emotional States and Bodily Clues
Where does the observer begin and the observed end?
Astrid Berg - "See me so that I may understand you"
The inhibition of reflective functioning in a traumatized society: A view from South Africa
Beverley Miles - Double Jeopardy
When the mother you so desperately need pushes you into danger
Ron Best - Caspari and Progressive Education
The Froebel connection
Lesley Maroni - Between Language and Silence
Factors that inhibit language production
Book Reviews
Trauma and Memory: the Science and the Silenced
ed. Valerie Sinason and Ashley Conway
Reviewed by Elyse Morgan
Know Me To Teach Me: Differentiated discipline for those recovering from Adverse Childhood Experiences
by Louise Bomber. Reviewed by Lizzie Lewis
Finding Your Way with Your Baby:
the emotional life of parents and babies
by Dilys Daws and Alexandra de Rementeria
Reviewed by Helen Dalton
Louise Mullier - The Right-Brain in Educational Psychotherapy
A critical evaluation of Allan Schore's 2014 article 'The Right Brain is Dominant in Psychotherapy'
Sable Leicher - Never Judge a Snail
A journey enabling growth in both therapist and client
Elizabeth Denton - Disconnected
What can a pandemic teach us about inclusive education?
Luke Palmer - Zoom with a(n Obscured) View
Online therapy with secondary school students
Lizzie Lewis - With Time in Mind
The function and meaning of time in educational psychotherapy
Book Reviews
The Brain has a Mind of Its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy
by Jeremy Holmes. Reviewed by Ron Best
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health
by Sarah Sutton. Reviewed by Rosie Chester
"Why Can't You Hear Me?"
Understanding, Nurturing and Working Effectively with Vulnerable Children in Schools
by Angela Greenwood. Reviewed by Sarah Cockerill
Issue 25, 2019
Debbie Brace - Are You Receiving Me?
A discussion about the complexities of responding to young children's distress in day care
Luke Palmer - Getting It
Working with facilitators in story groups
Jenny Dover - Observing and Interpreting
Being in the room with the child
Louise Mullier - Early Experience in the Family
A template for learning
Julia Haslam - The Use of Containment to Facilitate the Early Stages of Learning and Development
A case study illustrating the learning experience of both child and trainee
Book Reviews
Playing With Ideas: An Independent Practitioner's Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
by Deirdre Dowling. Reviewed by Lucy Alexander
Psychoanalysis and Other Matters:
Where Are We Now?
edited by Judith Edwards. Reviewed by Mia Beaumont
Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
by Graham Music. Reviewed by Jim Rose
Issue 24, 2018
Elizabeth Denton - Thoughts on Thinking
A consideration of Bion's theories at work in the therapy room
Elizabeth Cohen - Making Up For Lost Time
Using the calendar in Educational Psychotherapy
Esther Chunga - My Sister's Keeper
Reflections on work with siblings plagued by violence and trauma
Lizzie Lewis - Little Fairy Flying High
An adopted child's shift from omnipotence to integration
Anthi Sidiropoulou & Bettina Davou -"It Rings Therefore I Exist"
Issues of emotional development in the digital world
Book Reviews
Attachment and Emotional Development in the Classroom: Theory and Practice
edited by David Colley and Paul Cooper
Reviewed by Luke Palmer
Attachment for Teachers: The Essential Handbook for Trainee Teachers and NQTs
by Marie Delaney. Reviewed by Heather Geddes
Issue 23, 2017
Graham Music - Sensible Adaptations With Unfortunate Costs
Some thoughts about attachment styles
Lynsey Daniels - Who Was Irene Caspari?
Tracing her steps
Gillian Morton - A Spark That Can Light Beacons
The legacy of Irene Caspari
Helen Gidley - Putting It All Back Together Again
Building a secure base with Lego in Educational Psychotherapy
Book Reviews
Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development
by Graham Music. Reviewed by Heather Geddes
Love the Wild Swan: The selected works of Judith Edwards
by Judith Edwards. Reviewed by Lee Marsden
Issue 22, 2016
Juliet Hopkins - Holding and Attachment
Implications of the work of Winnicott and Bowlby for Nursery Care
Sarah Cockerill - Earliest Learning
Observation of a Mother and Baby
Mark Griffiths - Getting to the Roots
Family Group: Why It Works
Elizabeth Cohen - Shifting the Mind's Furniture
A Case Study
Jim Rose - Why Endings Matter
Managing Transitions for Looked-After Children
Book Reviews
Working with Young People in Secure Accommodation: From Chaos to Culture
(2nd Edition)
by Jim Rose. Reviewed by Ron Best
An Independent Mind: The Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins
edited by Ann Horne & Monica Lanyado
Reviewed by Anne Casimir
Issue 21, 2015
Alison Waterhouse - Circles for Learning
Mother and baby observations within the classroom
Sophie Jubb - Creating a Space to Think
A case study
Mia Beaumont - Obesity - a Barrier to Learning?
Keeping uncomfortable feelings at bay
Gill Morton - Therapeutic Story Groups
Educational psychotherapy in a school setting
Joanna Gaskell - Death, Loss and Learning
How bereavement can affect a child or young person's capacity to love, learn and trust
Book Reviews
Finding Your Way with Your Baby - the Emotional Life of Babies and Parents
by Dilys Daws and Alexandra de Rementeria.
Reviewed by Anne Casimir
Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume two: The contemporary adolescent
edited by Lyn French & Reva Klein
Reviewed by Liz Arnesen
Issue 20, 2014
Brikkels, Lee, Jackson and Warren-Adamson - The Art and Graft of Multidisciplinary Work
An account on one primary school's collaborative approaches to children's learning needs
Lucy Alexander and Miriam Grossfeld - Joining Up, Joining In
Helping children become part of a group in the classroom
Michaela Luckett - Children in the Classroom
Attachment theory as a framework for teachers' thinking
A Caspari Foundation Graduate - Working with Silence
A case study
Paul Cutler - The Sparkle of Us
Therapeutic storywriting and social inclusion
Book Reviews
Experiencing Endings and Beginnings
by Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg.
Reviewed by Gillian Salmon
Settling to Learn
by Louise Bomber & Daniel Hughes
Reviewed by Heather Geddes
Winnicott's Children
edited by Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado
Reviewed by Lee Marsden
Issue 19, 2013
Lyn French - Engaging Adolescents in the School Setting
Psychotherapeutic work in secondary schools
Rebecca Booth - Understanding a Child's Inner World
Ideas fron Bion and Klein
Mia Beaumont - Cumulative Trauma and the Capacity for Resilience
A case study
Jenny Dover & Ruth Seglow - Lowering the Drawbridge
One mother's use of a parents' group
Stuart Lane - What Lies Behind the Behaviour?
The neuroscience and physiology of the impact of trauma - considerations for schools
Book Reviews
Why Can't Help This Child To Learn?
by Helen High. Reviewed by Lee Marsden
Working With The Child Within
by Lyn French & Reva Klein.
Reviewed by Angela Greenwood
Empathic Care for Children with Disorganized Attachments
by Chris Taylor. Reviewed by Jim Rose
Issue 18, 2011
James Wetz - Attachment, Emotional Wellbeing and Attainment
Essential understandings for our teachers and schools
Laura House - Emotions in the Classroom
How attachment theory informs the developing practice of a
recently qualified teacher
Ben Hoskins - Looked-After Children and Learning
Some contributions to the thinking that informs professional practice
Jenny Dover - Educational Psychotherapy
A clinical process with beneficial outcomes and applications in the classroom
Dr Heather Geddes - Emotional Well-Being in Schools
The contribution that attachment theory can make to enhancing educational engagement and achievement
Marian Evans - Nurture Groups
Theory, practice and new developments
James Park - Shaping Schools Where Children Feel Heard
How Antidote's PROGRESS Programme shapes culture and ethos
Dr Hazel Douglas - The Solihull Approach
A whole school approach
Dr Trisha Waters - Story Links
Engaging parents of pupils with behaviour difficulties and poor literacy through therapeutic storywriting
Mark Griffiths - Families Helping Families
A school-based intervention
Dr Ted Cole - The Work of SEBDA - The Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association
Book Review
How Nurture Protects Children by Jim Rose.
Reviewed by Lee Marsden
Special edition in association with the Consortium for Emotional Wellbeing in Schools (CEWBS)
Issue 17, 2010
Anne Casimir - Only Connect
Children affected by inter-generational unresolved loss
Jim Rose - The Nature of Nurture
or: You can't grow a pig by weighing it
Marcus Johns - Education, Mental Health and Social Integration
Thoughts arising on Tavistock Day Unit's 40th anniversary
David Divine - Belonging and Being Acknowledged
A personal journey through the Child Care System
Obituary - Liz Saunders
An appreciation
Book Review
Teaching the Unteachable
by Marie Delaney. Reviewed by Beverley Mason
Issue 16, 2008
Gloria Condon - Loss, Attunement And Second Chance Learning
A Case Study
Lee Marsden - Family Matters For Every Child
Education For Children In The Cassel Therapeutic Community
Jenny Dover - The Vulnerable Child In The Classroom
Ruth Seglow - Beginning To Sort It Out
A Child Psychotherapist In A Secondary School
Clare Williams - Creating A Secure Base
Therapeutic Thinking Within A Whole School Setting
Book Review
Reaching And Teaching Through Educational Psychotherapy: A Case Study Approach
by Gillian Salmon & Jenny Dover. Reviewed by Mia Beaumont
Issue 15, 2007
Mary Sue Moore - Building The Brain With 'Procedural' Knowledge
Clinical implications of neuroscientific knowledge
Heather Geddes - Conflict And Learning
Mark Griffiths - Reaction To Reflection: BEST Practice In Schools
Marie Delaney - Feeling Useless
The struggle to contain in therapy and classroom
Sue Robinson, Gillian Gordon & Graeme Galton - Currents In The Consulting Room
How can popular culture be used to amplify or influence therapeutic narrative in the consulting room?
Christiane Nevermann - The Berlin Initiative of the Caspari Foundation London
Edited version of an address given at the Caspari International Conference The Child In Conflict, University of London, Royal Holloway College, 6 July 2006
Helen High - Rosalie Kerbekian
An appreciation
Book Review
The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Eduaction by Biddy Youell. Reviewed by Liz Kennedy
Issue 14, 2006
Michael Brearley - Teaching And Learning: Bad Seed Or Stony Ground?
Helen High - The Development Of Educational Therapy and Some Other Applications Of Psychoanalytic Thinking To Education In Great Britain
Rebecca Woodhams - From Push-Pull To Brave Connection
Educational Therapy With A Maternally Deprived Child
David Morgan - Children As Receptacles Of Parental Violence
Ricky Emanuel - Thalamic Fear
Helen High - Jean Estelle Cowen
An appreciation
Book Reviews
tweens: What to expect from - and how to survive - your child's pre-teen years
by Andrea Clifford-Poston. Reviewed by Sarah Adams
Therapeutic Storywriting: A Practical Guide To Developing Emotional Literacy In Primary Schools
by Tricia Waters. Reviewed by Patricia Reid
Attachment In The Classroom: The Links Between Children’s Early Experience, Emotional Well-Being And Performance In School
by Heather Geddes. Reviewed by Gerda Hanko
Issue 13, 2004
Jenny Dover - Work With A Hard-To-Reach Child
Vicky Rowland - A Boy Lost In Time And Space
Irene Oromi - Psychoanalytic Contributions To The Understanding Of Psychosis And Its Mechanisms In Children
Barbara Lyndon - What Is Important When You Are Four Years Old And Starting At School Or Nursery
A Commentary On Two Nursery Observation Essays
Trisha Waters - Therapeutic Storytelling In The Junior School
Book Reviews
Young Minds In Our Schools
by Peter Wilson. Reviewed by Liz Arnesen
The Presence Of The Therapist Treating Childhood Trauma
by Monica Lanyado. Reviewed by Astrid Axson
The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care
edited by Lesley Day and Denis Flynn.
Reviewed by Sue Richards-Gray
Issue 12, 2003
Ricky Emanuel - A-Void
An Exploration Of Defences Against Sensing Nothingness
Jenny Dover - The Child Who Cannot Bear Being Taught
Barbara Lyndon - That's A Good Thought
Educational Therapy With Children In A School Setting
Judith Edwards - Minding The Gap
Transitions Across The Life Cycle Particular Reference To Working With Children
Margot Waddell - The Assessment Of Adolescents Preconceptions And Realisations
Book Reviews
Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals, Groups and Organisations Volume 8 No 3 August 2002
Guest editors Ron Best & Heather Geddes. Reviewed by Liz Arnesen
Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road To Emotional Recovery And Behavioural Change in Foster and Adopted Children by Daniel A. Hughes
Reviewed by Heather Geddes
Working With Emotions: Responding To The Challenge Of Difficult Pupil Behaviour In Schools edited by Peter Gray. Reviewed by Ruth Robertson
The Suitcase Kid/The Illustrated Mum
by Jacqueline Wilson. Reviewed by Ruth Robertson
Issue 11, 2002
Anne Casimir - A Healing Narrative
Working through trauma in an educational context
Margaret Sumner - Becoming A Therapeutic School
The management perspective
Louise Emanuel - Becoming A Therapeutic School
The consultant's perspective
Marilyn Selby - Becoming A Therapeutic School
The educational therapist's perspective
Gerda Hanko - Therapeutic Joint Problem-Solving
to enrich the learning environment for pupils and teachers
Book Review
Attachment Trauma and Resilience - therapeutic caring for children by Kate Cairns. Reviewed by Heather Geddes
Issue 10, 2001
Mia Beaumont - Making Good The Deficit
A therapeutic approach to ADHD
Elaine Arnold - The Hidden Price Of Immigration
Separation and reunion of Afro-Caribbean children
Jennifer Thomas - The Role Of The Fairy Tale
Developing the sense of self in children aged 4-7
Cherry Dunne - The Use Of Fantasy In Educational Therapy
Eve Greenwood - Counselling Skills
An integral part of good teaching
Anniken Marstrander - An Appreciation Of
Anne Marit Duve
Helen High - A First Meeting With
Anne Marit Duve
Book Reviews
Clinical Counselling In Schools edited by Nick Barwick. Reviewed by Heather Geddes
Supporting Literacy: A guide For Primary Classroom Assistants edited by Kate Grant. Reviewed by Sue Davies