Development 1:  Infancy and Childhood

Dr. Patricia Nachman
Winter 09-10
PTY - CA - 1st Year

* Readings available on PEP-Online

INTRODUCTION

Week 1:           * Mayes, L., and Cohen, D.  (1996). Anna Freud and Developmental Psychoanalytic Psychology. Psychoanal. Study of the Child, vol. 51

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY OBJECT RELATIONS
THE ROLE OF THE PARENTS
DISTURBANCES IN OBJECT RELATIONS

Week 2:           *Stern, D. (1971). Microanalysis of mother-child interaction. J. of the Amer. Acad. Of Child psychiatry, v, 10, #3, pp.501-517.   

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Week 3:           Bergman, A. (1999). Margaret Mahler’s theory of separation-individuation. Handbook of Child and Adolescent psychiatry, pp. 276-286. 

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Week 4:           McDevitt, J. and Mahler, M. (1980).  Object constancy, individuality, and internalization, in The Course of Life, vol. 1.  Eds: S.I. Greenspan and G. H. Pollock.  NIMH.

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Week 5:           Tronick, E. & Weinberg, M. (1997).  Depressed mothers and their infants.
In L. Murray and P. Cooper (eds.). Post partum Depression and Child Development.   New Guilford  Press, pp.54-81.

Week 6:           *Mayes, L. and Cohen, D.J.  (1994).   Experiencing the self.  JAPA, 42,

Week 7:           *McDevitt, J.  A childhood gender identity disorder.  (1995).  Psychoanal. Study of the Child, vol. 50, pp.79-105.  (clinical paper). 

EMPIRICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF
DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Week 8:           Bradley, S. (2000).  Affect Regulation and the Development of Pathology. Guilford press, chapter 2, pp.-55.

*Fonagy, P. (1993).  Psychoanalytic and empirical approaches to developmental psychopathology;  an object-relations perspective, JAPA, vol. 41, pp245-260..

Week 9:           *Mayes, L., and Cohen, D.J.  (1996).  Children’s developing theory of mind.  JAPA, vol.44, no.1, pp.117-142.

Week 10:         *Cohen, D. (1993). Stephen: A child analysis.  (1993).  J. Clinical Psychoanalysis, vol. 2, no. 1, pp.63- 88, 1963.  (clinical case).