Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis: Integration and Innovation (The Developments in Psychoanalysis Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855754401 ISBN 13: 9781855754409

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

As a discipline, psychoanalysis began at the interface of mind and brain and has always been about those most basic questions of biology and psychology: loving, hating, what brings us together as lovers, parents, and friends and what pulls us apart in conflict and hatred. These are the enduring mysteries of life and especially of early development-how young children learn the language of the social world with its intertwined biological, genetic, and experiential roots and how infants translate thousands of intimate moments with their parents into a genuine, intuitive, emotional connection to other persons. Basic developmental neuroscience and psychology has also of late turned to these basic questions of affiliation: of how it is that as humans our most basic concerns are about finding, establishing, preserving, and mourning our relationships. These areas in broad strokes are the substance of mind and brain, and the last decade has brought much new science to the biology of attachment, love, and aggression.

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Fonagy, Peter

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1855754401
• ISBN 13: 9781855754409
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Target Mary, Fonagy Peter, Mayes Linda