Description
Book SynopsisDoes it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children and the way they did it themselves. Did the experts practice what they preached?
Using an eclectic variety of sources, from letters, diaries, autobiographies, biographies, as well as material from interviews, each chapter focuses on a key figure in historical context. There are many surprises. Was Piaget, the greatest child psychologist of the 20th century, the only man to try to psychoanalyse his mother? How many sons of great gurus have had to rescue their father from a police station as R.D Laing''s son did? And why did Melanie Klein''s daughter wear red shoes they day her mother died?
The book covers early scientists such as Darwin, psychoanalysists such as Freud and Jung, to founders of developmental psychology including Piaget and Bowlby as well as Dr Spock. It gives a
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Charles Darwin: The First Child Psychologist 3. John B. Watson: A behaviourist's tragedies 4. Sigmund Freud: A man who analysed his daughter in secret 5. Carl Jung: The Archetypal Prick, a provocative title 6. Melanie Klein and her daughter 7. Piaget: His mother and psychoanalysis 8. Benjamin Spock: The Conservative radical 9. John Bowlby: the man with the bowler hat 10. Burrhus Skinner: the man who caged his daughters? 11. R.D Laing: Violence in the family 12. Carl Rogers and unconditional personal regard 13. The good enough psychologist?; References
