The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation

by Margaret S. Mahler, Fred Pine, Anni Bergman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786725328
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	08/06/2008
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	926 KB

About the Author

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.