'An original and exciting description of child psychotherapy at its best and a masterly contribution to the literature.'

Anne Alvarez, psychotherapist, author of Live Company: Psychoanalytic Therapy with Autistic, Abused and Borderline Psychotic Children.

'This accessible and timely work aims to introduce the reader to the 'therapeutic art' of working with children and adolescents, using a psychoanalytic perspective, Peter Blake, significantly, represents the first Australian author/therapist to compile such a comprehensive and clinically rigorous account of the practice of child and adolescent psychotherapy. . . Blake's writing style is lively and transparent, whist the content of the book is structured thoroughly and clearly, assisting readability. . . A highly informative, refreshing work that should appeal to beginners seeking a model of therapeutic work with children to draw from, in addition to experienced child psychotherapists keen to reflect on their own practice with children and adolescents. It achieves its aim of seeking to make the practice of child and adolescent psychotherapy more transparent.'

From review published in Psychotherapy in Australia, Vol 15, No. 2, February 2009, by Marita Lowry, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.