Description
Book SynopsisIn Growing Pains: Revising Child Development Theories and their Application to Patients of All Ages, editors Henri Parens and Salman Akhtar present a collection that draws on over 50 years professional experience in child development. Contributors to this collection touch on psychoanalytic conceptualizations of child development, separation-individuation theory, personal clinical experiences, the effects of trauma and neurodevelopmental disorders in the mother-child relationship, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. This edited collection is recommended for scholars and practitioners interested in psychoanalysis, child development, and clinical psychology.
Trade ReviewGrowing Pains is a veritable treasure trove of the history of psychoanalytic perspectives on development. The contributors to this edited collection demonstrate the value of Margaret Mahler’s separation-individuation theory, including the integration of attachment theory, trauma theory, and intersubjectivity of Mahler’s object relations theory. -- Leon Hoffman M.D., New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, coauthor of the Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors
Table of ContentsChapter One Our Understanding of Child Development: An Introductory Overview Salman Akhtar Chapter Two On the Road to Object Constancy Harold Blum Chapter Three You Can’t Have Self Without the Other John M. Ross Chapter Four Separation-Individuation Theory 50 Years Later Henri Parens Chapter Five “Oneness with Other(s)” and Its Reverberations throughout Life Wendy Olesker Chapter Six Talking with the Wall: On Intersubjectivity, Trauma, and Neurodevelopmental Disorder in the Parent-Child Relationship Daniel Schechter Chapter Seven Intersubjectivity and Intergenerational Transfer of Trauma Susan Coates Chapter Eight Where in the World Did Mahler’s Separation-Individuation Theory Go?: A Concluding Commentary Ann G. Smolen
