`Anorexics On Anorexia provides valuable insights into the diversity of individual experience that surrounds eating disorders. These experiences cover a range of eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia and how these can interact with each other. Within this book there are many points of contact for a wide audience including stories that cover a diversity of gender, age, onset, treatments, hope and recovery. This book is suitable for a wide audience including sufferers, children, families, and professional health workers. In educational terms this book is highly recommended as dispelling some of the myths that surround eating disorders and ensuring that they are not glamorized. In this sense it can speak to children and their teachers to further understanding and hopefully aid in the promotion of prevention. This accessible and inspiring book is invaluable as the extent of suffering today is ever increasing and diverse. For me (an ex-suffer of eating disorders) the strength of this book is in the attention to individual difference and the acknowledged value of speaking out. The book ends with a useful list of contacts which includes supportive national associations that address issues surrounding eating disorders.' -- International Journal of Children's spirituality
`Emotional milestones examine the many crucial turning points and vital events that occur during a child's passage to adulthood. The theory and practical psychodynamic approach is clearly written, and illustrated by good case studies. What appeals to me most is that the book can be read as a whole, as well as being used as a reference book. The sections are clearly separated and headed, and each section can stand alone. This is a very different and appropriate book for all those concerned with the care of children to have on their bookshelves.'
MBF Friends Newsletter
`much of the child psychotherapist's training and practice are demonstrated from a common sense perspective that can be appreciated by a broad range of people, parents and professionals alike ... the author's experience of years working with parents shines through ... Her book has the well-travelled feel of a teacher with wide experience. She knows what questions parents ask. She has had enough clinical experience to illustrate freely the viewpoint of the child ... As a book for parents this is undoubtedly an excellent volume. As an introduction to psychodynamic thinking, it has many uses as a beginner's book ... This is a text distilled from experience, thought about and cared about, in which every word is carefully placed. Like good wine it has been long in the making. And it shows.'
Child Psychotherapy Trust
`Neven's book is based on the widely accepted relational perspective of development. It is also based on her wealth of clinical experience, which services to make this book very readable. It is a scholarly volume because of Neven's ability to interpolate pyschodynamic and theoretical understandings within the current sociocultural context. 'Emotional Milestones' would be useful for occupational therapists, physical therapists, regular and special education teachers, speech and language pathologists, social workers, infant mental health workers, and child-care workers and parents. Experienced clinicians, as well as students will benefit from Neven's relational perspective and her sound theoretical knowledge, so well illustrated by her narrative examples.'
Journal of Family Studies
`... thorough yet manageable ... offers a thorough and informative look at emotional development in young people.'
Youthwork
`No better introductory text could be commended to the paediatric trainee than Ruth Schmidt Neven's.'
-- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
