How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It
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  • Published: 9 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781473596382
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It

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9 Jun 2022
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9 Jun 2022
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18 May 2024
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Note on a Nervous Planet for parentings by renowned child psychotherapist who helped Philippa Perry write her book.

I know of no one better qualified to understand what young people are facing today - Philippa Perry

There are epidemic rates of ADHD, depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide in young people. The conventional medical model wants to put a plaster on the problems with medication and CBT, but we, as parents, need to dig deeper. We need to face the fact that it is not our child's fault, but the world we are bringing them up in and that we play a key role in how they see this world.

Bringing together years of work helping children and the child inside us all, acclaimed psychotherapist, Louis Weinstock, will show us how. Split into two parts, and blending mindfulness, meditation and visualisation, we are taken on a journey that starts with exploring our own fears and weaknesses, and ends joyfully in practical ways we can help build confidence, courage and authentic hope about the future in our children.

The power lies within each of us to create with, and for, our children a more beautiful world right now - a world where they realise their almost infinite potential.
  • Published: 9 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781473596382
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Louis Weinstock

Louis Weinstock is a psychotherapist who works with children and the child inside us all. He helps people find a light in the darkness - in the things that are unseen, unheard and unspoken. He has worked with vulnerable children for over 20 years as a drugs counsellor, a child protection social worker and a psychotherapist running a therapeutic school for teenagers with complex problems. He sees death as our greatest teacher and runs 'magic power of grief' circles at festivals. He is also co-founder of Apart of Me, a multi-award winning charity that helps young people transform their grief into compassion.

Praise for How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It

In this book, rich in edifying insight and illuminating case examples, Louis Weinstock confronts us with uncomfortable truths and guides us towards creating a world that is comfortable for our children and supports their healthy development.

Gabor Maté

A powerful and transformational guidebook, for this generation and the next ... showing each of us the way to a calmer mind and a more peaceful world

Andy Puddicombe

I know of no one better qualified to understand what young people are facing today

Philippa Perry

Louis cares deeply about children and the world they are growing up in. In this book, he provides a brilliant, nurturing, much needed voice to children and anyone who cares about children

Jessie Ware

Passionate about empowering children, young people and families to reclaim their attention, Louis is delivering a message of hope for the future without shying away from the very real existential challenges of today

David Lammy

This is a book everyone needs to read. Whether we have children or not, we all grew up in this toxic soup and we're all carrying the scars. With integrity, authenticity and compassion, Louis shows that all of us can heal, and must, if we are to usher in a world we'd be proud to leave to our children.

Manda Scott
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