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Inside lives : psychoanalysis and the growth of the personality / Margot Waddell.

By: Waddell, Margot, 1946- [author ].
Contributor(s): Tavistock Clinic.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Tavistock Clinic series.Publisher: London : Karnac, 2002Description: xix, 268 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1855759373 (paperback) ; 9781855759374 (paperback) .Subject(s): Psychoanalysis | Developmental psychology | PersonalityAdditional physical formats: Electronic version : Inside lives : psychoanalysis and the growth of the personality.DDC classification: 155 Also available on Ebrary.Also available in print form.
Contents:
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.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 which impede it. In bringing together a wide range of clinical, non-clinical and literary examples, it offers a detailed and accessible introduction to contemporary psychoanalytic thought and provides a personal and vivid approach to the elusive question of how the personality develops.

Previous edtion: London : Duckworth, 1998.

Bibliography: (pages 259-264) and index.

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.

CIT Module PSCY 9017- Core reading.

Also available on Ebrary.

Also available in print form.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.