This very engaging, substantial, and accessible volume not only demonstrates why and how teachers, educators, and care professionals benefit from psychoanalytic understandings of children, but it also offers genuine practice examples that show how such understanding can make a difference. Ranging from case studies to critiques of the pressures brought down on teachers from curricula and schoolification imperatives to examples of teacher education seminar programs, this book will be a vital resource for early educational trainers and students alike.