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.
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
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