Books by Gertrude Pollitt

In Psychodynmaic Treatment of Children with Emotional Problems, author Gertrude Pollitt demonstrates the best practices of treating severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents to help them adapt and thrive in the real world while also addressing their own intimate needs.

Gertrude Pollitt recounts the challenges of her adventurous life. After a privileged childhood in Vienna, she fled the Nazis, survived the London Blitz, helped war-traumatized children in Germany, and emigrated to Chicago where she worked as a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and Executive Director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study.