Normal Child and Adolescent Development : A Psychodynamic Primer.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (365 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Video Guide -- 1 A Psychodynamic Developmental Orientation -- 2 Infancy: Parenthood, the Mother-Infant Relationship, and the Mind of the Infant -- 3 The Toddler: Early Sense of Self and Gender, Rapprochement, Libidinal Object Constancy, and Superego Precursors -- 4 The Oedipal Phase and Emerging Capacities: Language, Imagination, Play, Mentalization, and Self-Regulation -- 5 The Oedipal Phase: Psychosexual Development, Oedipal Complex and Constellation, and Oedipal Phase Contributions to Mental Life -- 6 The Latency Phase: Cognitive Maturation, Autonomy, Social Development, and Learning -- 7 Preadolescence: Bodily Challenges, Changing Relationships, and the Transition to the Teen Years -- 8 Early and Mid-Adolescence: The Importance of the Body, Sexuality, and Individuation, the Role of Action, and the Special Problems of the Teen Years -- 9 Late Adolescence: Identity, Sexuality, Autonomy, and Superego Formation in the Late Teens and Early Twenties -- 10 The Odyssey Years: Emerging Adults on the Path to Adulthood -- 11 The Role of Developmental Thinking in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer is a thorough introduction to how development unfolds as a complex transactional process progressing through the first three decades of life. The book embraces a nonlinear multisystem approach while maintaining the touchstones of traditional developmental phases.