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Normal child and adolescent development : a psychodynamic primer / by Karen J. Gilmore, Pamela Meersand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilmore, Karen J., 1948- author.
- Meersand, Pamela, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adolescent Development.
- Child Development.
- Psychology, Adolescent.
- Psychology, Child.
- Medical Subjects:
- Adolescent Development.
- Child Development.
- Psychology, Adolescent.
- Psychology, Child.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 344 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia ; London, England : American Psychiatric Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- A psychodynamic developmental orientation
- Infancy : parenthood, the mother-infant relationship, and the mind of the infant
- The toddler : early sense of self and gender, rapprochement, libidinal object constancy, and superego precursors
- The oedipal phase and emerging capacities : language, imagination, play, mentalization, and self-regulation
- The oedipal phase : psychosexual development, oedipal complex, configuration and constellation, and its legacy in mental life
- The latency phase : cognitive maturation, autonomy, social development, and learning
- Preadolescence : bodily challenges, changing relationships, and the transition to the teen years
- Early and mid-adolescence : the ongoing importance of the body, sexuality, individuation, and the role of action in the special problems of teenagers
- Late adolescence : identity, sexuality, autonomy, and superego formation in the late teens and early twenties
- The odyssey years : emerging adults on the path to adulthood
- The role of developmental thinking in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781615370979
- 1615370978
- 9781585629961
- 1585629960
- OCLC:
- 892799547
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