1st Edition
Inside Lives Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality
By Margot Waddell
Copyright 2002
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This second edition of the remarkable Inside Lives (expanded with a chapter on the last years of the life cycle) provides a perspective on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the nature of human development. Following the major developmental phases from infancy to old age, the author lucidly explores the vital aspects of experience which promote mental and emotional growth and those... Read more
Series editors’ preface -- Foreword to the second edition -- Author’s note -- A historical note -- Introduction -- States of mind -- Beginnings -- Infancy: containment and reverie -- Infancy: defences against pain -- Early childhood: weaning and separation -- Latency -- Models of learning -- The family -- Puberty and early adolescence -- Mid-adolescence: a clinical example -- Late adolescence: fictional lives -- The adult world -- “The later years” -- The last years -- Appendix
Biography
Margot Waddell is a psychoanalyst and consultant child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. She has written extensively on adolescence, including work on groups, gangs and scapegoating.
