Our need for others and its roots in infancy / Josephine Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Josephine, 1926-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child analysis.

Infant psychology.

Need (Psychology).

Object relations (Psychoanalysis).

Self in infants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tavistock Publications, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this original and highly readable book Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of how young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preamble; 1 Introduction and overview; 2 The physical perspective; 3 The formation of concepts; 4 Intentional behaviour; 5 'I am not yet born'; 6 The unattached infant; 7 Holding on to safety versus steering clear of danger; 8 The basic units of experience; 9 The emerging of painful relationships; 10 The language of splitting; 11 Feeling grand; 12 The joy of being; 13 The language of relationships; 14 Discovering, inventing, creating, and using symbols; 15 Renée; 16 Inadequate environment and fragile self; 17 Basic faults as the cause of splits

19 Holding and integrating20 New beginnings; Appendices; Index

Notes:

First published: London : Tavistock Publications, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-93089-5

1-134-93090-9

1-280-60370-4

9786610603701

0-203-13659-4

9780203136591

OCLC:

228173171