TY - JOUR
AU - Emanuel, Ricky
AB -  Child Psychotherapy and Research edited by Nick Midgley , Jan Anderson , Eve Grainger , Tanja Nesic‐Vuckovic and Cathy Urwin . Published by Routledge , Hove , 2009 ; 232 pp; £22.99 paperback . The psychoanalytic professions appear to be under more threat and attack at present than at any other time. With the advent of IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) diminishing resource bases and pressure from government to deliver evidence‐based or NICE‐approved treatments, it is imperative that the professions rise to the challenge to present evidence of effectiveness in clear and unambiguous ways. The recent meta‐analysis of the effectiveness of long‐term psychodynamic psychotherapy by Leichsenring and Rabung (2008 ) showed that long‐term psychodynamic psychotherapy was a more effective treatment for complex mental disorders than other shorter forms of psychotherapy. This was a highly significant publication in a prestigious non‐psychoanalytic journal and can be used to make the case that there is evidence for the effectiveness of this type of treatment. This new book also helps in the cause for psychoanalytic child psychotherapy, as it brings together a wide range of papers and summaries of research studies undertaken in the field from around the world. However, as 
TI - Child Psychotherapy and Research – Edited by Nick Midgley, Jan Anderson, Eve Grainger, Tanja Nesic‐Vuckovic and Cathy Urwin
JO - British Journal of Psychotherapy
DO - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.2009.01158_5.x
DA - 2010-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/child-psychotherapy-and-research-edited-by-nick-midgley-jan-anderson-kA8GBogFaP
SP - 116
VL - 26
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -