Early Childhood/Pre-Oedipal to Oedipal

Child Psychoanalytic Training (CPT)
2021-22, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 10:15-11:45am
Julie Wood, MA

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October 8, 2021 — The parents’ imagined child

[92 pages]

Mid-term evaluations should be conducted in the closing minutes of your classes today. This is a discussion that should be allowed at least 10 minutes, but no more than 30 minutes. No written records are necessary.

Midterm Class Evaluation Discussion Questions

Hugger, L. (2009). Mourning the Loss of the Idealized Child. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 8(2):124-136

Fraiberg, S. (1982). Pathological Defenses in Infancy. Psychoanal. Q., 51:612-635

Lieberman, A.F. (1999). Negative Maternal Attributions. Psychoanal. Inq., 19(5):737-756

Fraiberg, S.; Adelson, E.; Shapiro, V. (1975) Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships, Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 14(3):387-421.