The Transformational Self: Attachment and the End of the Adolescent Phase
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2013
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 272
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 33309
- ISBN 13 : 9781780491424
- ISBN 10 : 1780491425
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Joseph A. Walsh, Ph.D. on 24/10/2013 20:43:15
(5 out of 5)
This new book by Harold Bendicsen, a senior, psychoanalytically-trained clinician, presents an impressive new synthesis of developmental theories, culminating in the fully-developed self structure in late adolescence. Unique to this book is the integration of several theories of the self along with linguistic and neurobiological theory. This makes for one of the most comprehensive perspectives on human development through adolescence yet presented in our psychoanalytic literature.
These integrative theories are further enriched in this book by including two case studies demonstrating the evolution of personal metamorphosis and the capacities in normal development for various and complex self representations. Thoughtful clinicians and students of human development will be well-served by reading, discussing and applying the high-quality research represented here by a very skilled observer of how developmental transformation occurs.