Issues in children's literature criticism; on knowing the child - stories of origin and hierarchical systems; on knowing the child - stories of origin and the education-amusement divide; on knowing the child - the terms of children's literature criticism; on not knowing the child - children's literature criticism and adult literary theory; the reading child and other children - the psychoanalytic child and psychoanalytic space - a consideration of some theoretical issues in psychotherapy, on ways of hearing and seeing patients in some cases of child psychotherapy.
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Critical Survey
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