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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963524003321

Titolo

Personality development : a psychoanalytic perspective / / edited by Debbie Hindle and Marta Vaciago Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-68169-0

81-8382-085-9

1-280-32943-2

1-134-68170-4

0-203-13063-4

0-203-26607-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HindleDebbie <1949->

SmithMarta Vaciago <1944->

Disciplina

155.2/5

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Developmental psychology

Personality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Personality Development A Psychoanalytic Perspective; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Intra-uterine life and the experience of birth; Chapter 3 Babyhood: Becoming a person in the family; Chapter 4 The toddler and the wider world; Chapter 5 Kings, queens and factors: The latency period revisited; Chapter 6 'It's just an ordinary pain':Thoughts on joy and heartache in puberty and early adolescence; Chapter 7 Adolescence: A personal identity in a topsy-turvy world

Chapter 8 The transition from late adolescence to young adulthood: Oedipal themesChapter 9 The transition from late adolescence to young adulthood: Student life; Endpiece; References; Selected reading list; Directory of further learning opportunities; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Personality Development is a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life



and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances. Contents include: * intra-uterine life and the experience of birth * babyhood: becoming a person in the family * the toddler and the wider world * the latency period. Using clinical and observational material, it will be of interest to those teaching personality de