The Challenges of Working with Child Sexual Exploitation and How a Psychoanalytic Understanding Can Help

This is the first book that we are aware of which examines Exploitation using a psychoanalytic framework which makes the behaviour and motives of victims and in some cases exploiters comprehensible. The book looks at a range of situations from care homes to refugee camps and elite schools.

Marion Bower has postgraduate diplomas in Education and Social Work. She was a Consultant Social Worker at the Tavistock Clinic and is a Senior Adult Psychotherapist. She has written and edited four books on related subjects and is currently working on a biography of Psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to be published by Routledge. Orcid ID 0000-0003-0646-4968

Robin Solomon has been a Clinical Social Worker/psychotherapist for over 40 years. She has held senior posts at the Tavistock Clinic as a clinician and as an educator. She now works independently as an external staff consultant with CAMHS services in Britain and abroad and with residential care homes for Looked After adolescents. Orcid ID 0009-0002-1067-5709