Psychoanalysis and Infant Research

ISBN-13: 9780881631456 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 280 str.

Joseph Lichtenberg

Opis

This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then reconceptualizes the analytic situation, and forms an experiential account of the therapeutic action of analysis.

Spis treści

I. The Neonate  1. The Challenge for Psychoanalytic Theory from Neonate Research  2. How Can We Examine the Beginning Sense of Self and Object?  II. The First Year  3. Toward and Adaptational Perspective on the First Year  4. Do We Need to Postulate Self-Object Differentiation in the First Year?  5. Additional Timetable Considerations  6. Reflections on Id and Ego in the First Year  III. The Second Year  7. The Beginnings of an Imaging Capacity and Sign-Signal Informational Exchange  8. Speculations on the Self-as-a-Whole as an "Emergent Property"  9. The Effect of Assertiveness and Genital Awareness on the Emergent Self  10. Symbolic Representation and Consolidation of Sense of Self  IV. Applications  11. Erotogenic Zones Versus Alternative Organizational Models of Infancy  12. The Psychoanalytic Situation and Infancy  13.  An Experiential Conception of What Is Curative in Psychoanalysis

O autorze

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and, with Frank Lachmann and James Fosshage,  A Sprit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002).