Development, attachment and relationship: new psychoanalytical concepts
Buchheim, A.; Schmücker, G.; Kächele, H.
Psychiatria Polska 35(4): 549-571
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2674 PMID: 11760457 Document Number: 530792
Authors present the evolution of psychoanalytical views of how a child perceives and contruct the world. They begin with Freud's thought and go through works of Klein, Spitz, Mahler, Bowlby, ending with modern thought of Stern. Developments in understanding of the infant by observations taken through the last thirty years are outlined and implications for psychoanalytical theory and treatment of mental problems are described.