Play, gender, therapy : selected papers of Eleanor Galenson / by Nellie L. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Nellie L., eauthor.

Contributor:

International Psycho-Analytical Association.

Series:

Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series.

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galenson, Eleanor, 1916-2011.

Galenson, Eleanor.

Sex differentiation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eleanor Galenson had a remarkable career whose singular focus was her life-long interest in the maturational and psychosexual vicissitudes of infancy and early childhood. The selection of her writings in this volume highlight her approach to the study of the early years of life and, in particular, her contributions to understanding the developmental significance of the very young child's discovery of sexual difference, and the ways in which each child expresses this through play, symbolization and language. Interviews that Galenson gave to Milton Senn and Lucy LaFarge provide a Prologue to the Volume. They introduce the reader to her voice, and portray the milieu within which she matured and worked as a pediatrician, researcher and psychoanalyst. Papers are organized in three parts that illustrate different facets of Galenson's thinking and work: Symbolization, Thought and Language; Infantile Origins of Sexual Identity; and The Tripartite Therapeutic Model. Parts1 and2 are introduced by Patricia Nachman and Lucy LaFarge, respectively, colleagues and friends of Galenson who are deeply familiar with her work.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE Interview with Eleanor Galenson; PROLOGUE Our children, our future: a conversation with Eleanor Galenson; PART I SYMBOLISATION, THOUGHT, AND LANGUAGE; Introduction to Part I; CHAPTER ONE A consideration of the nature of thought in childhood play; Discussion of Chapter One; CHAPTER TWO The impact of early sexual discovery on mood, defensive organisation, and symbolisation; Discussion of Chapter Two; CHAPTER THREE The influence of hostile aggression on the development of expressive language

PART II INFANTILE ORIGINS OF SEXUAL IDENTITYIntroduction to Part II; CHAPTER FOUR Early genital activity and the castration complex; CHAPTER FIVE Object loss and early sexual development; Discussion of Chapter Five; CHAPTER SIX Observation of early infantile sexual and erotic development; CHAPTER SEVEN Review of The Infantile Origins of Sexual Identity; CHAPTER EIGHT Review of The Infantile Origins of Sexual Identity; PART III THE TRIPARTITE THERAPEUTIC MODEL; CHAPTER NINE Treatment of psychological disorders of early childhood: a tripartite therapeutic model

CHAPTER TEN Gender disturbance in a three-and-a-half-year-old boyCHAPTER ELEVEN Psychoanalytic approach to psychotic disturbances in very young children: a clinical report; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-91734-1

0-429-90311-1

0-367-10211-0

0-429-47834-8

1-78241-246-8

9780429478345

OCLC:

908059947