Ours, Yours, Mine Mutuality and the Emergence of the Separate Self

by Bergman, Anni Scott; Fahey, Maria F.

• ISBN13: 9781568213743
• ISBN10: 1568213743
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

Ours, Yours, Mine: Mutuality and the Emergence of the Separate Self discusses theory and research issues; gender roles and development of girls; female identity; clinical applications, case studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xv
I. Separation-Individuation Theory---Then and Now
Separation-Individuation Theory and Ongoing Research	3	(24)
From Mother to the World Outside: The Use of Space during The Separation-Individuation Process	27	(20)
Ours, Yours, Mine	47	(18)
Speculations on the Development of Gender Role Characteristics	65	(4)
Considerations about the Development of the Girl during the Separation-Individuation Process	69	(22)
Thoughts about Stages on the Way to Empathy and the Capacity for Concern	91	(22)
Arnold Wilson
The Mother's Experience during the Earliest Phases of Infant Development	113	(20)
On the Development of Female Identity: Issues of Mother--Daughter Interaction during the Separation-Individuation Process	133	(14)
Self--Other Action Play: A Window into the Representational World of the Infant	147	(20)
Ilene Sackler Lefcourt
Two Women and Their Mothers: On the Internalization and Development of Mother--Daughter Relationships	167	(30)
Maria Fahey
Autonomy and the Need for the Caretaking Other	197	(22)
Maria Fahey
Love, Admiration, and Identification: On the Intricacies of Mother--Daughter Relationships	219	(24)
Maria Fahey
II. Facilitating the Separation-Individuation Process in the Clinical situation
From Psychological Birth to Motherhood: The Treatment of an Autistic Child with Follow-up into Her Adult Life as a Mother	243	(44)
``I and You'': The Separation-Individuation Process in the Treatment of a Symbiotic-Psychotic Child with Adult Follow-up	287	(34)
Using Insights from Observational Research of Mothers and Babies in the Therapy of Preschool Children: The City University Child Center	321	(44)
From Command to Request: The Development of Language in the Treatment of a Symbiotic-Psychotic Child	365	(24)
Margaret Chernack
The Oral Deadlock: Treatment of a Psychotic Child	389	(20)
Michael Schwartzman
Phyllis Sloate
Arnold Wilson
A Model for the Day Treatment of Severely Disturbed Children	409	(8)
Arnold Wilson
To Be or Not To Be Separate: The Meaning of Hide-and-Seek in Forming Internal Representations	417	(16)
References	433	(16)
Credits	449	(2)
Index	451