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Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment

Author(s) : Stephen Seligman

Table of Contents

New Introduction
Introduction: Why Developmental Psychoanalysis?

Part I - How We Got Here: A Roadmap to Psychoanalytic Theories of Childhood and Development
1. Childhood Has Meaning of Its Own: Freud and the Invention of Psychoanalysis
2. Theory I: Foreshadowings: Core Themes and Controversies in the Early Freudian Theories
3. The Baby at the Crossroads: The Structural Model, Ego Psychology, and Object Relations Theories
4. Theory II: What Is a "Robust Developmental Perspective?"
5. The Postwar Diversification and Pluralization of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Interdisciplinary Expansion, the Widening Clinical Scope and the New Developmentalism

Part II - The Relational Baby: Intersubjectivity and Infant Development
6. Infancy Research: Toward a Relational-Developmental Psychoanalysis
7. Clinical Implications of Infancy Research: Affect, Interaction and Non-Verbal Meaning in the Dyadic Field
8. Theory III: The Relational Baby: Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique Continuities from Infancy to Adulthood: The Baby is Out of the Bathwater
9. Theory IV: The Move to the Maternal: Gender, Sexualities, and the Oedipus Complex in Light of Intersubjective Developmental Research

Part III - Attachment and Recognition in Clinical Process: Reflection, Regulation and Emotional Security
10. Intersubjectivity Today: The Orientation and Concept
11. Attachment Theory and Research in Context: Clinical Implications
12. Recognition and Mentalization in Infancy and Psychotherapy: Convergences of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis
13. Infant–parent interactions, phantasies, and an “internal two-person psychology”: Kleinian and intersubjective views of projective identification and the intergenerational transmission of trauma

Part IV - Vitality, Activity, and Communication in Development and Psychotherapy
14. Coming to Life in Time: Temporality, Early Deprivation, and the Sense of a Lively Future
15. Forms of Vitality and Other Integrations: Daniel Stern’s Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Core

Part V - Awareness, Confusion and Uncertainty: Nonlinear Dynamics in Everyday Practice
16. Feeling Puzzled While Paying Attention: The Analytic Mindset as an Agent of Therapeutic Change
17. Dynamic Systems Theories as a Basic Framework for Psychoanalysis: Change Processes in Development and Therapeutic Action
18. Searching for Core Principles: Louis Sander’s Synthesis of Biological, Psychological, and Relational Factors and Contemporary Developmental Psychodynamics