Controls from within : techniques for the treatment of the aggressive child /
by Fritz Redl and David Wineman.
- New York : Free Press, 1952.
- 322 p.; 22 cm
Contents: Introduction: The challenge of the children who hate; Tool vacuum on the educational scene --I. Structure and strategy of a treatment home --A house that smiles, props which invite, space which allows --Routines which relax --A program which satisfies --Adults who protect --Symptom tolerance guaranteed, old satisfaction channels respected --Rich flow of tax-free love and gratification grants --Leeway for regression and escape --Freedom from traumatic handling --Ample flexibility and emergency help --Cultivation of group emotional securities -- 2. Programming for ego support : What is a good program ; Current approaches to programming :Program as a counteragent against destruction and sex ; Program as a disciplinary device; Program as a concession to human rights ; Program as a tool in the educative process ; Program in the service of socialization ; Program as a crutch for the emotionally handicapped ; Program as a counteragent against wrong life situations ; Program as a diagnostic and cathartic device. Programming as a full-fledged therapeutic tool: Impulse drainage ; Frustration avoidance and frustration budgeting ; Concessions to sociological taste patterns ; Individual antisepsis ; Group psychological hygiene ; Organization and sublimation dosage ; Insertion of depersonalized controls ; Protective timing ; Manipulation of hangover effects and transitional confusions ; Protective and preventive interference ; The build-up of satisfaction images as resources ; The cultivation of interest-contagion ; Widening the experiential range ; Challenge toward participative planning and post situational evaluation. 3. Techniques for the antiseptic manipulation of surface behavior : Planned ignoring ; Signal interference ; Proximity and touch control ; Involvement in interest relationship ; Hypodermic affection ; Tension decontamination through humor ; Hurdle help ; Interpretation as interference ; Regrouping ; Restructuring ; Direct appeal ; Limitation of space and tools ; Antiseptic bouncing; Physical restraint ; Permission and "authoritative verbot" ; Promises and rewards ; Punishments and threats ; The limitations of "techniques": cautions and warnings -- 4. Techniques for the clinical exploitation of life events : Techniques : "Symptom cultivation" : Strategic noninterference ; Exploitative interference. Interpretation through counterdelusional action ; Focusing experiences through the interview : The "rub-in" interview ; The "guilt-squeeze" interview ; The expressional interview ; The "counterdistortional" interview ; The interpretational interview ; The promotional build-up interview ; Group interviews. Total strategy and clinical movement : Giving ego support around a severe sibling confusion ; Extricating the ego from a night time phobia ; Ego troubles under the impact of liberation from fear ; First round with a delinquent ego. -- Epilogue. Therapeutic gains, closure of pioneer house, and follow-up.
Problem children Child rearing Child development Child psychology