Authors: Margot Waddell
ISBN-13: 9780415922890, ISBN-10: 0415922895
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Margot Waddell is a psychoanalyst and consultant child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Together with Nicholas Temple, she is editor of Routledge's Tavistock Clinic Series.
Inside Lives tells in the simplest of terms the most complex of stories: the internal development of a person from infancy to old age. Following the major phases of human development, Margot Waddell lucidly explores those vital aspects of experience which promote mental and emotional growth as well as those which impede it. She traces the interplay between factors, internal and external, which contribute to a person's character strength and sense of identity. In gathering together a wide range of clinical, non-clinical and literary examples, this book provides a personal and vivid perspective on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the nature of human development.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Author's Note | ||
An Historical Note | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | States of Mind | 5 |
2 | Beginnings | 15 |
3 | Infancy: Containment and Reverie | 27 |
4 | Infancy: Defences against Pain | 41 |
5 | Early Childhood: Weaning and Separation | 55 |
6 | Latency | 73 |
7 | Models of Learning | 95 |
8 | The Family | 111 |
9 | Puberty and Early Adolescence | 126 |
10 | Mid-Adolescence: A Clinical Example | 141 |
11 | Late-Adolescence: Fictional Lives | 157 |
12 | The Adult World | 175 |
13 | The Later Years | 195 |
Appendix | 213 | |
Selected Bibliography | 219 | |
Index | 223 |