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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, INTRODUCTION, 1. FORERUNNERS OF SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION: AUTISM AND SYMBIOSIS, 2. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BIRTH OF THE HUMAN INFANT: NORMAL DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENTIATION AND PRACTICING SUBPHASES, 3. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BIRTH OF THE HUMAN INFANT: RAPPROCHEMENT AND THE FOURTH SUBPHASE, 4. FANTASY: THE EXPRESSION OF INSTINCT. DEFENSE. AND THE NEGOTIATION OF THE SEPARATION INDIVIDUATION PROCESS, 6. VICISSITUDES OF SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION, 7. BORDERLINE PHENOMENA IN TERMS OF SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION, 8. Normal and Pathological Narcissism, 9. Introduction to Clinical Section, 10. Transitional Life Tasks and clinical interventions, 11. AUTOEROTICISM: A REPARATIVE EFFORT, 12. PREMATURE DIFFERENTIATION AND THE PATHOLOGY OF THE FALSE SELF, 13. COMBINATIONS OF SUBPHASE INADEQUACIES AND THE EFFECT ON STRUCTURE, 14. THE THERAPIST AS DEVELOPMENTAL PARTNER, 15. A CASE OF MARRIAGE COUNSELING, 16. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYMBIOTIC ORBIT IN THE TREATMENT OF A SCHIZOPHRENIC MAN, 17. THE TREATMENT OF SYMBIOTIC PATHOLOGY IN TWO MIDDLE YEAR DAUGHTERS AND THEIR SENIOR MOTHERS, 18. INTERVENTION-PREVENTION, APPENDIX A MARGARET S. MAHLER: ORIGINAL THINKER. EXCEPTIONAL WOMAN, APPENDIX B CHILD CARE PROGRAM & PRACTICE GUIDELINES, APPENDIX C MAHLER FOUNDATION FILM LIBRARY, GLOSSARY OF TERMS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AUTHORISUBJECTINDEX
About the author
Joyce Edward, A.C.S.W, B.C.D, Diplomate The New York Society of Clinical Social Work Therapists, Distinguished Practitioners of the National Academies of Practice. The late Nathene Ruskin, M.S.S. was a psychotherapists in private practice in New Tork. Patsy Turrini A.C.S.W, B.C.D, Diplomate The New York Society of Clinical Social Work Therapists is on the faculty of New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Summary
Reprint of the Gardner Press edition originally published in 1991. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
