Before the Best Interests of the Child

by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit

Readers may welcome some explanation why our three authors reversed the sequence of events by tackling the problems of beyond the best interest of the child earlier than in 1973 the difficulties and mistakes surrounding children placement loomed so large and so large and clamored so insistently for solution that the questions what and for what reasons these children find thmselves at he mercy of state disposition were pushed into the background.

Genres: Psychology, Law, Nonfiction, Social Work

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Joseph Goldstein (born 1944) is one of the first American vipassana teachers (Fronsdal, 1998), co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism (see publications below), resident guiding teacher at IMS, and leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness (metta) meditation.

While the majority of Goldstein's publications introduce Westerners to primarily Theravada concepts, practices and values, his 2002 work, "One Dharma", explored the creation of an integrated framework for the Theravada, Tibetan and Zen traditions.