Infancy Attachment

Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2020-21, 1st Block — Mondays, 8:00-9:15pm

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Introduction

This course is meant to introduce you to the concepts of development from birth (including an understanding of the minds and circumstances of parents) to the oedipal and pre-oedipal stages. We will approach this from both a historical perspective and also include contemporary theorist who have added to and challenged psychoanalytic orthodoxy. As analyst we believe that an understanding of earliest development allows us to not only work with children, but also to understand primitive mental states in the adults we treat.

September 14, 2020

[15 pages]

In our first week we will examine the writings of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. These women pioneered the adaptations of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic technique for work with children.They were fierce rivals and their conflict divided the two schools of thought between British Object Relations and Anna Freud.

Freud, A. (1981) The Concept of Developmental Lines—Their Diagnostic Significance. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 36:129-136.

Klein, M. (1958). On the Development of Mental Functioning. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 39:84-90.