The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth. Available for the first time in paperback to a new generation of students and clinicians on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its original publication.

Fred Pine is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, author of Developmental Theory and Clinical Process (1985) and, with Margaret Mahler and Anni Bergman, The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant (Basic Books, 1975) and a practicing adult psychoanalyst.

Preface to the 2000 Edition

vii

Fred Pine

Preface to the 2000 Edition

xv

Anni Bergman

Acknowledgments

xxi

Introduction and Historical Review

xxiii

Part I Separation-Individuation in Perspective

Overview

3

(14)

Evolution and Functioning of the Research Setting

17

(24)

Part II On Human Symbiosis and the Subphases of the Separation-Individuation Process

Introduction

39

(2)

The Forerunners of the Separation-Individuation Process

41

(11)

The First Subphase: Differentiation and the Development of the Body Image

52

(13)

The Second Subphase: Practicing

65

(11)

The Third Subphase: Rapprochement

76

(33)

The Fourth Subphase: Consolidation of Individuality and the Beginnings of Emotional Object Constancy

109

(15)

Part III Five Children's Subphase Development

Introduction

123

(1)

Bruce

124

(14)

Donna

138

(15)

Wendy

153

(16)

Teddy

169

(16)

Sam

185

(12)

Part IV Summary and Reflections

Variations within the Subphases with Special Reference to Differentiation

197

(13)

The Epigenesis of Separation Anxiety, Basic Mood, and Primitive Identity

210

(10)

Reflections on Core Identity and Self-Boundary Formation

220

(5)

Some Concluding Remarks about the Significance of the Rapprochement Crisis

225

(48)

Appendices The Data Analysis and Its Rationale: A Case Study in Systematic Clinical Research

Appendix A The Available Data

233

(13)

Appendix B A Research Rationale

246

(6)

Appendix C Some Research Strategies

252

(21)

References

273

(15)

Permissions

288

(1)

Glossary of Concepts

289

(5)

Author Index

294

(2)

Subject Index

296

(13)

About the Author

309

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The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation

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