Psychoanalytic Dyadic Perspectives on Human Development

Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2023-24, 1st Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Tuba Tokgoz, PhD FIPA

View Whole Syllabus

October 13, 2023 — Separation-Individuation: 18-month nodal point

[10 pages]

Videos:

• Baby crawling away from Mother
• Baby crying for Mother at bathroom door

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

Freud, S. (1920) Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 18:13-16.

(Fort Da)

Optional Reading

Bergman, A. & Fahey, M.F. (1999) “The Space Between Mother and Child” in Ours, Yours, Mine: Mutuality and the Emergence of a Separate Self. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. pp33-34.