Introducing Child Psychology

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

than the unlived life of their parents.

historical and social factors are responsible for the way a child behaves, feels and thinks?

sexual maturity, childhood proper comes to an end.

consistent across time and also different parts of the world.

child’s overall development, well-being and/or health is significantly different to that of the majority of other children in their age group, and is causing concern, it’s important to seek advice. The family doctor and/or the child’s teacher are generally good starting points for getting this help.

Defenceless as babies are, they have mothers at their command, families to protect the mothers, societies to support the structure of families, and traditions to give a cultural continuity to systems of tending and training.
Erikson

later strong relationships and emotional experiences throughout life contribute to the individual’s psychosocial development.

The third point is evident in the contribution of Donald Winnicott’s ideas to the work of psychotherapists. In their work, therapists seek to re-create the qualities of the early ideal mother-and-infant relationship as a way of healing older children and adults and forming psychological well-being and health. In essence, this ideal relationship offers love and playfulness, something Winnicott referred to as a ‘play space’, in combination with encouragement to be independent and self-aware.

All that matters is love and work.
Freud

Fixation

An aspect of the unconscious mental processes of an individual, in which all psychic energies and actions are intensely focused on a thing or person.