The journey of child development : selected papers of Joseph D. Noshpitz / edited by Bruce Sklarew, Myra Sklarew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Joseph Noshpitz (1922-1998) / Marilyn Benoit, Carl Feinstein -- Ethics in child development / Intro. by Lawrence Stone -- Idealization / Intro. by Linda Mayes -- Idealization and psychopathology: forms of expression of the negative ideal -- Music / Intro. by Carl Feinstein -- Visual art / Intro. by Gilbert Rose -- Prose and poetry / Intro. by Theodore Shapiro -- Mime and dance / Intro. by Esther Rashkin -- Infantile narcissism in the grade school years / Intro. by Efrain Bleiberg -- Teenage mutant ninja turtles / Intro. by John McDermott -- Nancy Drew and "The baby-sitters club" / Intro. by James Lock -- Gender development in latency girls: the tomboy phenomenon / Intro. by Susan Coates and Adrienne Harris -- The tomboy, puberty, and beyond -- The effects of trauma on the development of self-destructiveness in adolescence / Intro. by Yari Gvion and Alan Apter -- Beyond school / Intro. by Lawrence Stone -- The ethics of rage / Intro. by Bernard Spilka -- Afterword: The life and work of Joseph Noshpitz / Robert S. Wallerstein.

Joseph Noshpitz was at the forefront of psychodynamic treatment and research with children and adolescents. These previously unpublished papers are introduced by experts who contemporize and contextualize the work for the modern reader.--[book cover]