"The Thinking Heart would be a useful text for any psychoanalytic scholar, independent psychotherapy practitioner or group of practitioners hoping to deepen their psychoanalytic understanding, particularly in relation to child psychoanalytic sychotherapy... [this book] reminds me why I continue to work with children and why I love it so much, despite the many challenges that go hand in hand with ... Read morechild psychotherapy." - Jenny Perkel, New Therapist, November/December 2012 "The Thinking Heart is a very full and moving book. It repays the careful responsive mindfulness that Alvarez advocates in clinical practice... In this book's lyrical synthesizing of science and art in examining the process and efficacy of psychotherapy with disturbed children, we can indeed hear her heart beat as we hear her think, as though they were one and the same process." - Sarah Sutton, ACP Bulletin, 2012 "Alvarez is a great teacher; her knowledge is immeasurable, her writing is brave and her reflections are humble. She claims that her thoughts are ‘only considerations, because the complexity of the human mind... ensures that there can be no manual’ (p86). I believe that the work of Anne Alvarez is the closest we can get to such a manual." - Jeanine Connor, Therapy Today, November 2012 Show Less