Developmental Ruptures: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions

Author(s) : Anna Maria Nicolo

Developmental Ruptures: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 292
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97491
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032663340
  • ISBN 10 : 1032663340

Table of Contents


Introduction

Part One - The Adolescent and Developmental Ruptures
1.The Adolescent Mind
2. The Problem of Assessment in Adolescence
3. Breakdown and Developmental Ruptures
4. The Negated, Repudiated, Persecutory Body
5. Sensoriality and Developmental Ruptures
6. Fear of Breakdown and Beyond
7. Developmental Ruptures: A Transformative Pathway
8. Pathological Transpersonal Links and Adolescent Breakdown

Part Two - The Defence Against Developmental Breakdown
9. Perverse Solutions and Perversion
10. Daydreams and their Evolutions
11. Martina: Alienation in the Other
12. Violence as a Defence Against Breakdown
13. Delusion, Secrets and Reciprocity
14. The Transgender Enigma
15. Self-Harm and Cutting

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