Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions with Infants, Toddlers and Their Families, edited by Julia Meyerowitz-Katz and Dean Reddick, London:  Routledge, 2016,  232 pages, paperback.

Art Therapy in the Early Years sets out to show how art therapy can facilitate healing and growth in young children and families who are dealing with wide-ranging issues and traumas. In the light of converging research from neuroscience, attachment, and trauma (Schore & Sieff, 2015), the value of such early interventions is now widely understood. My own work within a perinatal service in Scotland includes parent-infant dyadic art psychotherapy. In providing a powerful and articulate narrative, encompassing the internal and external worlds of infants, parents, and the art therapists who work with them this book offers an exciting and valuable resource for all who work psychotherapeutically in this field.

The book achieves this by combining detailed clinical material with robust theoretical discussion. The editors' introduction indicates an overarching approach that is deeply grounded in psychoanalytic thinking. The eleven chapters of separately authored case studies include photographs of the images produced in the course of the therapeutic interventions and each chapter gives a strong and often visceral account of the emerging symbolic, somatic, and sensory mind-body processes, which offer a way to the unconscious and neurological processes required to effect psychological change