The Enigma of Childhood : The Profound Impact of the First Years of Life on Adults as Couples and Parents / by Ronnie Solan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solan, Ronnie, author.

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Infant psychology.

Emotions in infants.

Emotions in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Summary:

In this bookthe authortraces the way that early psychic development from birth up to three years is reflected throughout our lifespan, including adulthood, couplehood and parenthood. The inner child reverberating within us (consciously and unconsciously) and thus present in our ongoing interactions with others, often colours and guides our current experiences, whether with our life partner or children, and as psychotherapists, with our patients. Our openness to its resonance allows us to become more attuned to and emotionally accessible to ourselves and others.The author's primary aim is to familiarize the reader with her innovative idea of the emotional immune system managed by a healthy narcissism and operating via the inner reverberations of hidden childhood narratives. Our sense of familiar self is accordingly consolidated and immunised to an invasion by foreign sensations.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I THE ORAL STAGE-THE STAGE OF INTIMACY. FROM BIRTH TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS; CHAPTER ONE Beginnings; CHAPTER TWO Narcissism: an immune system for the self; CHAPTER THREE The ego: an emotional self-regulation agency; CHAPTER FOUR Object relations: the attachment system; PART TWO THE ANAL STAGE-A TIME OF NEGOTIATION. FROM TWELVE MONTHS TO THREE YEARS; CHAPTER FIVE The progress of narcissism in the anal stage; CHAPTER SIX Consolidation of the ego; CHAPTER SEVEN The dynamics of object relations in the anal stage

CHAPTER EIGHT Healthy and pathological narcissistic processesCHAPTER NINE Summary; EPILOGUE; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

"Originally published in Hebrew by Modan in 2007"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 8, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-92062-8

0-429-90639-0

0-429-48162-4

1-78241-345-6

9780429481628

OCLC:

919188285