Psychoanalysis and Infant ResearchLichtenberg collates and summarizes recent findings about the first two years of life in order to examine their implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. He explores the implications of these data for the unfolding sense of self, and then draws on these data to reconceptualize the analytic situation and to formulate an experiential account of the therapeutic action of analysis. |
Contents
Two How Can We Examine the Beginning Sense of Self and Object? | |
Toward an Adaptational Perspective on the First Year | |
Do We Need to Postulate SelfObject Differentiation in the First | |
Additional Timetable Considerations | |
Reflections on Id and Ego in the First Year | |
The Beginnings of an Imaging Capacity and SignSignal | |
Self | |
Erotogenic Zones Versus Alternative Organizational Models | |
The Psychoanalytic Situation and Infancy | |
An Experiential Conception of What Is Curative in Psychoanalysis | |
References | |
Author Index | |
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