Table of Contents

About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Video Guide
Chapter 1. A Psychodynamic Developmental Orientation
Chapter 2. Infancy: Parenthood, the Mother-Infant Relationship, and the Mind of the Infant
Chapter 3. The Toddler: Early Sense of Self and Gender, Rapprochement, Libidinal Object Constancy, and Superego Precursors
Chapter 4. The Oedipal Phase and Emerging Capacities: Language, Imagination, Play, Mentalization, and Self-Regulation
Chapter 5. The Oedipal Phase: Psychosexual Development, Oedipal Complex and Constellation, and Oedipal Phase Contributions to Mental Life
Chapter 6. The Latency Phase: Cognitive Maturation, Autonomy, Social Development, and Learning
Chapter 7. Preadolescence: Bodily Challenges, Changing Relationships, and the Transition to the Teen Years
Chapter 8. Early and Mid-Adolescence: The Importance of the Body, Sexuality, and Individuation, the Role of Action, and the Special Problems of the Teen Years
Chapter 9. Late Adolescence: Identity, Sexuality, Autonomy, and Superego Formation in the Late Teens and Early Twenties
Chapter 10. The Odyssey Years: Emerging Adults on the Path to Adulthood
Chapter 11. The Role of Developmental Thinking in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Index

About the Author

Karen Gilmore, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Senior Consultant, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Pamela Meersand, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director, Child Division, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Reviews

The book does a great job blending various teaching models and keeping readers from getting lost in psychodynamic/analytic language. Having something for every level of professional from psychology student to practitioner is very useful. It can be difficult to find a book with this variety of information regarding the stages of life, but this book does a wonderful job of taking care of that task!