BookStephen Seligman.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
How we got here : a roadmap to psychoanalytic theories of childhood and development
Childhood has meaning of its own : freud and the invention of psychoanalysis
A. freud's legacy for developmental psychoanalysis: childhood at the origins
B. real women and children : the emergence of child psychoanalysis
Theory i: foreshadowings : core themes and controversies in the early freudian theories
The baby at the crossroads : the structural model, ego psychology, and object relations theories
A. ego psychology : psychic structure, adaptation, and external realities
B. kleinian psychoanalysis : internal objects, phantasies, and the centrality of the infantile primitive mind
The middle group : toward a relationship-based theory of psychic realities and environments
Theory ii: what is a "robust developmental perspective?"
The postwar diversification and pluralization of psychoanalysis in the united states: interdisciplinary expansion, the widening clinical scope and the new developmentalism
The relational baby : intersubjectivity and infant development
Infancy research : toward a relational-developmental psychoanalysis
Clinical implications of infancy research : affect, interaction and non-verbal meaning in the dyadic field
Theory iii: the relational baby : psychoanalytic theory and technique
Continuities from infancy to adulthood : the baby is out of the bathwater
Theory iv: the move to the maternal : gender, sexualities, and the oedipus complex in light of intersubjective developmental research
Attachment and recognition in clinical process : reflection, regulation and emotional security
Intersubjectivity today : the orientation and concept
Attachment theory and research in context : clinical implications
Recognition and mentalization in infancy and psychotherap y: convergences of attachment theory and psychoanalysis
Mentalization and metaphor, acknowledgement and grief : forms of transformation in the reflective space
Infant-parent interactions, phantasies, and an "internal two-person psychology" : projective identification and the intergenerational transmission of early trauma in kleinian theory and intersubjective infant research
Vitality, activity, and communication in development and psychotherapy
Coming to life in time : temporality, early deprivation, and the sense of a lively future
Forms of vitality and other integrations : daniel stern's contribution to the psychoanalytic core
Awareness, confusion and uncertainty : nonlinear dynamics in everyday practice
Feeling puzzled while paying attention : the analytic mindset as an agent of therapeutic change
Dynamic systems theories as a basic framework for psychoanalysis : change processes in development and therapeutic action
Searching for core principles : louis sander's synthesis of biological, psychological, and relational factors and contemporary developmental psychodynamics.