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The Story of Infant Development

Author(s) : Romana Negri, Author(s) : Martha Harris

Table of Contents

Editorial Note
Meg Harris Williams

Preface
Gianna Polacco Williams

Introduction
Romana Negri

CHAPTER ONE
- The pattern of normal development: forming a relationship with the breast
- A stunning experience
- A state of normal non-integration and evacuation of sensations
- The pull of the nipple
- Maternal depression and the difficulty of introjecting the object
- Digesting emotions
- Problems of identification in the mother
- The breast that comes and goes away
- The bottle, and a distance from the mother

CHAPTER TWO
- The pattern of normal development: the end of breastfeeding
- The end of breastfeeding
- Feelings of aggression and seduction
- Representations of the breast
- The lost breast and the nipple lifeline
- Mother returns to work—the new sweetheart
- The only baby
- The relationship with the father
- How the new baby is made
- The little chair—the new place in the family

CHAPTER THREE
- The story of the birth of the next sibling
- Feminine and masculine qualities
- The value of fairy tales
- The epistemophilic instinct
- One day it will be his turn
- A point of “catastrophic change”
- Birth of the next sibling
- The “imbecile” infantile self that damages its objects
- The second day at nursery school (with Donald Meltzer)
- The third birthday

CHAPTER FOUR
- A three-year-old uses the gang as container
- Summary of the first two observation sessions
- The gang and circularity of time
- The parents’ unfulfilled childhood (with Donald Meltzer)

CHAPTER FIVE
- Play observation in a hospital setting: some diagnostic implications
- Eleanora: redefining a diagnosis of child psychosis as neurotic anxiety
- Daniela: redefining a diagnosis of epilepsy as psychosomatic illness
- Vittoria: redefining a diagnosis of brain pathology in terms of mental insufficiency
- Infant observation: Matteo (early internalization of the object)
- Infant observation: Giuseppino (the relation of the child’s way of looking to the mother’s emotional condition)

Index