The book presents a modern, psychoanalytically-informed chronological view of how the mind develops from infancy through young adulthood. It is a comprehensive work which integrates analytic theories and concepts with a contemporary systems model of development and draws on scholarly research from neighboring fields.
Chapter 1: A psychoanalytic orientation to development in the 21st century; Chapter 2: Infancy: psychoanalytic theory, developmental research and the mother-child dyad in the first year of life; Chapter 3: Toddlerhood: separation-individuation, rapprochement and the forerunners of superego development; Chapter 4: The oedipal phase and the oedipal complex: developmental advances and theoretical considerations; Chapter 5: Latency: The era of learning, autonomy and peer relationships; Chapter 6: Preadolescence and early adolescence: overview of the adolescent process; challenges of sexual maturation; pre- and early adolescence.; Chapter 7: Middle and Late Adolescence: sex and gender, individuation, and identity in progression toward the threshold of adulthood.; Chapter 8: Emerging adulthood and contemporary society: Development in the third decade; Glossary; Index;
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