In response to widespread cultural fantasies about the child--including childhood innocence, the child as origin of the adult, the fetal emergence of subjectivity, and the ''inner child'' movement--Hide and Seek examines representations of the child in fiction, psychoanalysis, and popular culture.Concentrating on the ''go-between'' function of the ......
The concepts of representation and narratives have played a key role in the development of psychoanalysis, clinical research and theoretical speculation. This title analyzes the growth of representation and narratives in the history and practice of psychoanalysis.
Describing each phase of the psychosexual development of children, the author argues that sexuality manifests itself in children in various ways, including their games, rich fantasy life, and masturbation. It also demonstrates that the roots of adult neuroses can often be traced back to disturbances in sexual development during childhood.
In 1973, three women and two men were held hostage in a bank in Stockholm by two ex-convicts. This book describes how the hostages and their captors formed a bond (now known as the Stockholm Syndrome); and how survival mechanisms for the women could be seen to mirror those employed in daily life.
This second edition expands and focuses on involving parents and teachers to a greater extent, making greater use of hands-on workbook materials, and adapting and implementing procedures for children with a wide range of behavior problems linked to
Hauser was a physically stunted adult with the mind of a child, who was abandoned at the city gate of Nuremburg in 1828. The notoriety of his case gave the impetus to many arguments regarding the significance of nature versus nurture. This work shows that deprivation drastically impairs the normal functioning of growth hormones.
Aimed at mental health professionals who assess and treat children and adolescents, this reference work presents the approaches of the leading clinicians. It includes coverage of psychological assessment, developmental disturbances of speech, language and learning, and neurological syndromes.
Offers an overview of earlier research on children's human figure drawings, concerning development, their use as an intelligence test, their use as a projective test, and sex differences.
Approaches the development of psychoanalytic theories of women on two fronts: the psychoanalytic and the political. This book draws attention to the influence of the Women's Liberation Movement on psychoanalytic theory.
Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality Disorder includes topics such as the effect of child abuse on the psyche, the development of multiple personality disorder: predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors, and the relationship among dissociation, hypnosis, and child abuse in the development of multiple personality disorder.