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Separation/Individuation: Theory And Application: Theory & Application book cover

1st Edition

Separation/Individuation: Theory And Application Theory & Application

By Joyce Edward, Nathene Ruskin, Patsy Turrini Copyright 1993
416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

This highly successful work summarises the contributions of Margaret Mahler to contemporary developmental theory and applies the theory to clinical practice. Separation individuation involves progression along two tracks. Separation refers to the child’s movement from fusion with the mother; individuation consists of those steps that lead to the development of an individual’s ow persona and... Read more

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, INTRODUCTION, 1. FORERUNNERS OF SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION: AUTISM AND SYMBIOSIS, 2. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BIRTH OF THE HUMAN INFANT: NORMAL DEVELOPMENT DIFFERENTIATION AND PRACTICING SUBPHASES, 3. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BIRTH OF THE HUMAN INFANT: RAPPROCHEMENT AND THE FOURTH SUBPHASE, 4. FANTASY: THE EXPRESSION OF INSTINCT. DEFENSE. AND THE NEGOTIATION OF THE SEPARATION INDIVIDUATION PROCESS, 6. VICISSITUDES OF SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION, 7. BORDERLINE PHENOMENA

Biography

Joyce Edward, A.C.S.W, B.C.D, Diplomate The New York Society of Clinical Social Work Therapists, Distinguished Practitioners of the National Academies of Practice. The late Nathene Ruskin, M.S.S. was a psychotherapists in private practice in New Tork. Patsy Turrini A.C.S.W, B.C.D, Diplomate The New York Society of Clinical Social Work Therapists is on the faculty of New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

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