Third Trimester 2008-09
PTY-A - 1st Year

Hilary Hatch , Ph.D.

March 3 and March 10: Overview of Spitz, Harlow and Bowlby
Infant Observation and Mahler’s Phases of Separation/ Individuation Phases

*Mahler, M.S. (1972). On the First Three Subphases of the Separation-Individuation Process. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 53:333-338.

(Additional Reading: For reference as examples of infant observation: (1975) Mahler, M. The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant, pp 52-120.)

March 24: Winnicott
In *Through Pediatrics to Psycho-Analysis:
*Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena (1951) pp.229-242
*Primary Maternal Preoccupation (1956) pp. 300-305

In *The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment
*The Capacity to be Alone (1958) pp.29-36

March 31: Parenthood and the Parent Interview

*Benedek, T. (1959). Parenthood as a Developmental Phase—A Contribution to the Libido Theory, J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 7:389-417.

Fraiberg, Selma, “The Ghosts in the Nursery:” Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer 1975, pp. 387-422.

April 14 and 21: Attachment Theory

*Main, M. (2000). The Organized Categories of Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Flexible vs. Inflexible Attention Under Attachment-Related Stress. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 48:1055-1095.

*Hesse, E., Main, M. (2000). Disorganized Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Coll... J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 48:1097-1127.

April 28 and May 5:

*Stern, D.N. (1985). The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Development... New York: Basic Books. pp. 36-182. (Reading to be determined)

May 12:

*Beebe, B. (2000). Co-constructing mother-infant distress. Psychoanal. Inq., 20, 421-440.

*Beebe, B. (2005). Mother-Infant Research Informs Mother-Infant Treatment. Psychoanal. St. Child, 60:7-46.