This book renders the combined knowledge, only previously known in academia, of child development theory, the newest research in infant brain-development, and the humanistic psychoanalytic principles of Heinz Kohut’s Self Psychology into an accessible form for parents emotionally fatigued by ineffective and outdated parenting techniques.The book, with 20 warm and poignant case vignettes, puts theory into practice and highlights the emotional growth of parent and child that occurs simultaneously when the two work together, using techniques that can be practiced at home - including play therapy, sandtray exercises, storytelling and puppetry.Readers are already recognizing that this book is not only “Not Your Parent’s Parenting Book,” it’s not Freud’s psychoanalysis! Written with the same spirit of humanism that flows through the psychological and psychoanalytic theories underlying the practice Joanna Hulton articulates so well, this book belongs to the new wave of empathic advocacy that we all urgently need in order to understand ourselves, our children, and others and re-build a world of peace and prosperity that will make us proud of what we are leaving our children.