The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation

by Mahler, Margaret S.; Pine, Fred; Bergman, Anni

• ISBN13: 9780465095544
• ISBN10: 0465095542
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-13
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth. Available for the first time in paperback to a new generation of students and clinicians on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its original publication.

Author Biography

Fred Pine is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, author of Developmental Theory and Clinical Process (1985) and, with Margaret Mahler and Anni Bergman, The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant (Basic Books, 1975) and a practicing adult psychoanalyst.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2000 Edition	vii
Fred Pine
Preface to the 2000 Edition	xv
Anni Bergman
Acknowledgments	xxi
Introduction and Historical Review	xxiii
Part I Separation-Individuation in Perspective
Overview	3	(14)
Evolution and Functioning of the Research Setting	17	(24)
Part II On Human Symbiosis and the Subphases of the Separation-Individuation Process
Introduction	39	(2)
The Forerunners of the Separation-Individuation Process	41	(11)
The First Subphase: Differentiation and the Development of the Body Image	52	(13)
The Second Subphase: Practicing	65	(11)
The Third Subphase: Rapprochement	76	(33)
The Fourth Subphase: Consolidation of Individuality and the Beginnings of Emotional Object Constancy	109	(15)
Part III Five Children's Subphase Development
Introduction	123	(1)
Bruce	124	(14)
Donna	138	(15)
Wendy	153	(16)
Teddy	169	(16)
Sam	185	(12)
Part IV Summary and Reflections
Variations within the Subphases with Special Reference to Differentiation	197	(13)
The Epigenesis of Separation Anxiety, Basic Mood, and Primitive Identity	210	(10)
Reflections on Core Identity and Self-Boundary Formation	220	(5)
Some Concluding Remarks about the Significance of the Rapprochement Crisis	225	(48)
Appendices The Data Analysis and Its Rationale: A Case Study in Systematic Clinical Research
Appendix A The Available Data	233	(13)
Appendix B A Research Rationale	246	(6)
Appendix C Some Research Strategies	252	(21)
References	273	(15)
Permissions	288	(1)
Glossary of Concepts	289	(5)
Author Index	294	(2)
Subject Index	296	(13)
About the Author	309