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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Relational Perspectives Book Series |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- What to expect from this book -- Note -- Introduction: Why developmental psychoanalysis? -- â#x80;#x9C;The metaphor of the babyâ#x80;#x9D;: Infancy, child development, and clinical practice -- Infant development research, the relational baby, and the intersubjective turn -- Relational-developmental psychoanalysis -- About the author: The personal backstory -- Building bridges: Strengthening traditional insights with new knowledge |
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How this book is organized Notes -- Part 1 How we got here: A roadmap to psychoanalytic theoriesof childhood and development -- A narrative in context: A historical-developmental approach -- The emergence of the psychoanalytic development viewpoint -- The psychoanalytic orientations: A timeline -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Childhood has meaning of its own: Freud and the invention of psychoanalysis -- Freudâ#x80;#x99;s legacy for developmental psychoanalysis: Childhood at the origins -- Real women and children: The emergence of child analysis -- Notes |
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Chapter 2 Theory I: Foreshadowings: Core themes and controversies in the early Freudian theoriesObject relations and the interpersonal world -- Ferenczi: Actual relationships matter in childhood and in the consulting room -- The body and (human) objects in instinct theory -- Fantasy, reality, and trauma: The place of actual events in development and therapy -- Beyond the intrapsychic: The social and political worlds -- Freudâ#x80;#x99;s views of gender and sexuality and the Oedipal narrative |
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The Oedipal emphasis and the Oedipal/pre-Oedipal distinction in clinical theory and practicePsychoanalysisâ#x80;#x99; inattention to its own historical situation: Freud in the midst of turbulence and violence in Central Europe -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The baby at the crossroads: The structural model, Ego Psychology, and object relations theories -- Ego Psychologyâ#x80;#x94;psychic structure, adaptation, and external realities -- Kleinian psychoanalysisâ#x80;#x94;internal objects, phantasies, and the centrality of the infantile primitive mind |
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The Middle Groupâ#x80;#x94;toward a relationship based theory of psychic realities and environmentsNotes -- Chapter 4 Theory II: What is a â#x80;#x9C;robust developmental perspective?â#x80;#x9D; -- Looking at actual children -- Growth and adaptation as core motivations -- Developmental stage theories, temporal concepts, and integrative transformation -- Normal development and the progressive movement through stages -- Continuity and change: Time and temporality in the developmental perspective -- Relationships are central -- Complexity and integration: Nonlinear dynamic systems theories |
| Summary |
"The recent explosion of new research about infants, parental care, and infant-parent relationships has shown conclusively that human relationships are central motivators and organizers in development. Relationships in Development examines the practical implications for dynamic psychotherapy with both adults and children, especially following trauma. Stephen Seligman offers engaging examples of infant-parent interactions as well as of psychotherapeutic process. He traces the place of childhood and child development in psychoanalysis from Freud onward, showing how different images about babies evolved and influenced analytic theory and practice.?Relationships in Development offers a new integration of ideas that updates established psychoanalytic models in a new context: "Relational-developmental psychoanalysis." Seligman integrates four crucial domains:?Infancy Research, including attachment theory and researchDevelopmental PsychoanalysisRelational/intersubjective PsychoanalysisClassical Freudian, Kleinian, and Object Relations theories (including Winnicott). An array of specific sources are included: developmental neuroscience, attachment theory and research, studies of emotion, trauma and infant-parent interaction, and nonlinear dynamic systems theories. Although new psychoanalytic approaches are featured, the classical theories are not neglected, including the Freudian, Kleinian, Winnicottian, and Ego Psychology orientations. Seligman links current knowledge about early experiences and how they shape later development with the traditional psychoanalytic attention to the irrational, unconscious, turbulent, and unknowable aspects of the mind and human interaction. These different fields are taken together to offer an open and flexible approach to psychodynamic therapy with a variety of patients in different socioeconomic and cultural situations. Relationships in Development will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and graduate students in psychology, social work, and psychotherapy. The fundamental issues and implications presented will also be of great importance to the wider psychodynamic and psychotherapeutic communities."--Provided by publisher |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203850824 |
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0203850823 |
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