The self in early childhood / Joel Ryce-Menuhin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryce-Menuhin, Joel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color, folded) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Free Association, 1988.

Summary:

In a major reassessment of the psychology of early childhood the author re-examines ego-processes in relation to a self construct, notion of growing importance in both developmental and depth psychology. He reviews and revises psychoanalytic and Jungian theory, maintaining that a self theory is consistent with experimental data and that it is essential to analytical psychology, to the neo-Freudian contributions of Winnicott and Kohut and to the theory of autism, which has become a focus of clinical interest in the early self. He shows that self theories are centrally related to neo-Kantian humanism, to Sartre's philosophy and to Mischel's cognitive model. Using Michael Fordham's extension of Jung's self theory, he develops a new conception of the self and its ego-processes.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 252-268.

ISBN:

1853430021

185343003X

OCLC:

19326380