The Development of Aggression in Early Childhood

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-12-20
Publisher(s): Jason Aronson, Inc.
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Summary

This revised edition of The Development of Aggression in Early Childhood presents anew the author's multi-trends theory of aggression, with the addition of a two-part preface that provides an overview of the multitudinous theories of aggression in psychoanalytic thought and a discussion of the clinical applications-with clinical case examples-of his theory.

Author Biography

Henri Parens is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst (adult and child) at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Psychoanalytic theory of aggressionp. 15
The continuum of aggressionp. 17
The present state of psychoanalytic theory of aggressionp. 41
Aggression : a reformulationp. 99
The emergence of aggressionp. 125
Methodologyp. 127
The normal autistic phase (birth to 6 or 12 weeks)p. 151
First part of the normal symbiotic phase (6 or 12 weeks to about 5 months)p. 157
Second part of normal symbiosis and the differentiation subphase (5 or 6 to 10 months)p. 167
The practicing subphase of separation-individuation (8 or 9 to about 16 months)p. 181
The rapprochement subphase (about 16 to 24 months)p. 221
Toward an epigenesis of aggression in early childhoodp. 265
Earliest manifestations of the aggressive drivep. 267
Earliest influence of libidinal object structuring on the aggressive drivep. 275
Biological upsurge of the aggressive drivep. 283
The ego's reactions to the first conflict of ambivalencep. 291
Beginnings of neutralized aggressionp. 301
Aggression during the rapprochement subphasep. 311
Aggression during the subphase toward-object-constancy and upon entry into the Oedipus complexp. 323
Implications for primary preventionp. 333
Developmental profilesp. 343
Referencesp. 373
Indexp. 393
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