Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit (eBook, ePUB)

Advances in Separation-Individuation Theory: Essays in Honor of Selma Kramer, MD
Redaktion: Akhtar, Salman; Parens, Henri

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this tribute to Selma Kramer, eminent child analyst and colleague and close friend of the late Margaret Mahler, senior analysts explore the continuing relevance of Mahler's separation-individuation theory to developmental and clinical issues. Editors Salman Akhtar and Henri Parens have grouped the original contributions to Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit into sections that reevaluate Mahler's theory.

Section I is a timely reassessment of Mahler's working model from the standpoint of contemporary clinical and research findings. It includes comparisons of Mahler with Winnicott and Kohut, and commentaries on the status of separation-individuation theory in relation to psychosexual theory, early ego development, and observational infancy research. Section II addresses the contribution of separation-individuation theory to our understanding of pathogenesis. Neurosis, severe character pathology, psychosomatic phenomena, eating disorders, and sexual perversions are among the topics of specific chapters. The final section explores the role of separation-individuation theory in the treatment of analysands of different ages and with different kinds of psychopathology; it also considers separation-individuation theory with respect to specific aspects of the treatment process, including reconstruction, transference, and termination.

A fresh reappraisal of a major perspective on early development, Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit is a fitting testimonial to Selma Kramer, who has played so important a role in elaborating Mahler's theory. Following from Kramer's own example, the contributors show how separation-individuation theory, in its ability to accomodate ongoing clinical and research findings, is subject to continuing growth and refinement. They not only advance our understanding of Mahler's working model, but pursue the implications of this model in new directions, underscoring the many areas of exploration that separation-individuation theory opens to us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134881932
• Artikelnr.: 39265106

Autorenporträt

Salman Akhtar, M.D., is a faculty member of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute, and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. He is editor of New Psychiatric Syndromes: DSM-III and Beyond (1983) and coeditor of The Trauma of Transgression (1991). Henri Parens, M.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute, and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. He is author of Dependence in Man (1971) and The Development of Aggression in Early Childhood (1979) and coauthor of Aggression in Our Children (1987).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Akhtar
Parens The Prelude
or Growth of an Analyst's Mind
Rudolph
Madow
Byerly Publications of Selma Kramer
M.D. I. Separation-Individuation Theory: Contrast
Comparison
and Update 1. Separation-Individuation Theory and the Psychosexual Theory
Parens 2. Mahler and Winnicott: Some Parallels in Their Lives and Works
Wolman 3. Mahler
Kohut
and Classical Analysts: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations
Shane
Shane 4. The Stages of Ego Development: Implications for Childhood and Adult Psychopathology
Greenspan 5. Some Comments on Early Development
Kernberg 6. Contemporary Infant Research and the Separation-Individuation Theory of Margaret S. Mahler
Nachman II. Psychopathology as Understood in the Light of Separation-Individuation Theory 7. Contributions of Separation-Individuation Theory to the Understanding of Psychopathology During the Prelatency Years
McDevitt 8. Transformations in Normal and Pathological Latency
Glenn 9. Separation-Individuation and Adolescence with Special Reference to Character Formation
Leaff 10. Adolescence
Sex and Neurosogenisis: A Clinical Perspective
Fisher
Fisher 11. Neurosis and Separation-Individuation Theory
Burland 12. Psychosomatic Phenomena
Thompson II 13. Three Fantasies Related to Unresolved Separation-Individuation: A Less Recognized Aspect of Severe Character Pathology
Akhtar 14. Dyadic Psychopathology and Infantile Eating Disorder: Psychoanalytic Study and Inferences
Blum 15. Form and Function in Sexual Perversion: A Contribuiton to the Problem of "Choice" of Perversion
Socarides III. Treatment Implications 16. Treatment of Psychological Disorders of Early Childhood: A Tripartite Therapeutic Model
Galenson 17. Construction and Reconstruction: Semantics and Dynamics
Frank 18. On the Treatment of Preoedipal Pathology
Settlage 19. Treatment Implications of Separation-Individuation Theory in the analysis of Young Adults
Escoll 20. Termination and Separation-Individuation
Pulve