Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

This comprehensive overview of personality development from inter-utero life through adulthood focuses on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances. Central importance is given to attachment and to psychoanalytic concepts such as the Oedipal complex, separation and individuation, and the development of the capacity to think. Using considerable new clinical and observational material,Personality Developmentwill be of interest to teachers of personality development courses as well as mental health and child care professionals.