Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer (Paperback)

About the AuthorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsVideo GuideChapter 1. A Psychodynamic Developmental OrientationChapter 2. Infancy: Parenthood, the Mother-Infant Relationship, and the Mind of the InfantChapter 3. The Toddler: Early Sense of Self and Gender, Rapprochement, Libidinal Object Constancy, and Superego PrecursorsChapter 4. The Oedipal Phase and Emerging Capacities: Language, Imagination, Play, Mentalization, and Self-RegulationChapter 5. The Oedipal Phase: Psychosexual Development, Oedipal Complex and Constellation, and Oedipal Phase Contributions to Mental LifeChapter 6. The Latency Phase: Cognitive Maturation, Autonomy, Social Development, and LearningChapter 7. Preadolescence: Bodily Challenges, Changing Relationships, and the Transition to the Teen YearsChapter 8. Early and Mid-Adolescence: The Importance of the Body, Sexuality, and Individuation, the Role of Action, and the Special Problems of the Teen YearsChapter 9. Late Adolescence: Identity, Sexuality, Autonomy, and Superego Formation in the Late Teens and Early TwentiesChapter 10. The Odyssey Years: Emerging Adults on the Path to Adulthood Chapter 11. The Role of Developmental Thinking in Psychodynamic PsychotherapyIndex