Understanding Infants Psychoanalytically

<p>Focussing on infants and the relationship between child and parent, this book presents a discourse on eminent Jungian child analyst Michael Fordham's model of development that extended Jung's theory to infancy and childhood.</p><p>In this book, Elizabeth Urban, a Jungian psychotherapist in weekly conversations with Fordham, proposes five key areas, such as identifying periods of primary self-funcionin and the active participation of the infant in development, that contribute to the Fordham model of infant development. Drawing extensively on her observations and experiences working in a London child and adolescent unit, and a mother and baby unit, as well as using real-life observations to support the proposed contributions, the author provides a deeper understanding of infant development in the context of the relationship with the parents. </p><p>This book is a unique contribution to the study of child development and is of great interest to paediatricians, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals who work with children and their parents.</p> <p>Introduction; Part I: Theory; 1: The primary self and related concepts in Jung, Klein and Isaacs; 2: Infant observation, experimental infant research and psychodynamic theory regarding lack of self/other differentiation; Part II: Explications; 3: Out of the mouths of babes: an enquiry into the sources of language development; 4: 'With healing in her wings ...’: integration and repair in a self-destructive adolescent; 5: Developmental aspects of trauma and traumatic aspects of development; Part III: Extensions; 6: Fordham, Jung and the self: a re-examination of Fordham's contribution to Jung 's conceptualisation; 7: The 'self' in analytical psychology: the function of the 'central archetype' within Fordham's model; 8: Reflections on research and learning from the patient: the art and science of what we do; Appendix Elizabeth Urban – list of publications</p>