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Psychoanalysis and Infant Research.

Lichtenberg collates and summarizes recent findings about the first two years of life in order to examine their implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. He explores the implications of these data for the unfolding sense of self, and then draws on these data to reconceptualize the analytic situa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lichtenberg, Joseph D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Colección:Psychoanalytic inquiry book series.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: THE NEONATE; 1. The Challenge for Psychoanalytic Theory from Neonate Research; Some Questions for Drive Theory; An Amplification of Ego Psychology; The Implications for Object Relations Theory; A Reconceptualization of Affects; Conclusion; 2. How Can We Examine the Beginning Sense of Self and Object; Genetic Endowment; Generalizing and Particularizing Tendencies; The Context; PART II: THE FIRST YEAR; 3. Toward an Adaptational Perspective on the First Year; State Organization and the Structuring of Response.
  • Stimulus-Seeking Activity and Beginning CommunicationThe Patterning of Personality Elements; The Regulation of Dystonic Stimulation; 4. Do We Need to Postulate Self-Object Differentiation in the First Year; Intrapsychic Representation; Conceptual Representation of Intentionality; Affective Attitudes Toward Others; 5. Additional Timetable Considerations; Fantasy; Emotion; Anticipation; Memory; Defensive Organization; 6. Reflections on Id and Ego in the First Year; PART III: THE SECOND YEAR; 7. The Beginnings of an Imaging Capacity and Sign-Signal Informational Exchange.
  • The Shift Toward an Imaging CapacityThe Impact of the Imaging Capacity; Conclusion; 8. Speculations on the Self-as-a-Whole as an "Emergent Property"; The Sense of Self as Director; 9. The Effect of Assertiveness and Genital Awareness on the Emergent Self; The Upsurge of Assertiveness; The Increased Genital and Perineal Sensation; 10. Symbolic Representation and Consolidation of Sense of Self; Information Processing in Two Cognitive-Affective Modes; The Impact on the Toddler; PART IV: APPLICATIONS; 11. Erotogenic Zones Versus Alternative Organizational Models of Infancy.
  • How Do We Interpret Meaning?Understanding Development; Toward a New Theory of Learning; The Impacts of Affects; The Modification of Early Experience; Conclusion; 12. The Psychoanalytic Situation and Infancy; Changing Programs for Interpretation; Clinical Illustrations; Applications to the Psychoanalytic Situation; 13. An Experiential Conception of What Is Curative in Psychoanalysis; Various Concepts of Cure; A Revised View of the Therapeutic Process; A Concluding View; References; Author Index; Subject Index.