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Intricately weaves psychoanalytic and developmental theory to explain how we become who we are, and how we might grow beyond the places we get stuck.
List of contents
Introduction: Companions on a Journey
Part I. The Intra- and Interpersonal Context in Which Identity Develops Chapter 1. Bion’s Grid: Tracking Relational Versus Cognitive Development
Chapter 2. Affective Development
Chapter 3. Symbolization
Chapter 4. Identity Development
Part II. Interpreting Transference and Countertransference Chapter 5. Transference and Countertransference
Chapter 6. Interpretation
Part III. Understanding Specific Symptoms Chapter 7. Somatization
Chapter 8. Eating Disorders
Chapter 9. Borderline Versus Narcissistic Positions
Chapter 10. Narcissism
Chapter 11. Psychosis
Part IV. Applications Chapter 12. The Oblique Angle: Psychoanalysis and the View From the Side
Chapter 13. Dreams and Field Theory
Chapter 14. Trauma, Resilience, and Psychic Time
Epilogue: Instruments in Need of Fine Tuning
References
About the author
Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Universidad de Monterrey, and Harvard Medical School. Books include
Patterns;
Constructing Realities;
Learning from Experience;
Working with Trauma;
Psychoanalysis and Literature; Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis;Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O’Loughlin);
Women and Psychosis and
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (with Marie Brown); and
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education (with Jill Bellinson)
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