Pre-Object Relatedness

Early Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-1-57230-015-6
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: The Guilford Psychoanalysis Series

This volume explores the primitive yet complex emotional world of the baby, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection, and verbal description. Author Ivri Kumin describes the impact of early relational experiences on the foundation of emotional living, when traumatic developmental interferences can disrupt the infant's emerging capacity for representational thought. Using detailed clinical examples, he explains how these early experiences are enacted within the psychoanalytic situation and how their analysis and mediation enable the patient to think about and emotionally encompass these states for the first time.

Multidisciplinary in his approach, the author integrates infant observational studies and attachment theory with psychoanalytic developmental perspectives. He explores the core concepts of the three major psychoanalytic theories: signal anxiety (ego psychology), projective identification (object relations theory), and affect attunement (self psychology), and explains the unity of their underlying modes of action on the basis of contemporary infant research. The book then applies its understanding of early relatedness to a wide variety of psychoanalytic issues of both theoretical and clinical importance.

Part I of the volume examines the basic language of primary relatedness. Topics covered include early attachment, precursors of internalized object relationships, signal anxiety, and environmental mediation. Chapters in Part II discuss affect transmission, the nature of emotional exchanges in the psychoanalytic situation, fields of identity, creation of representability, and the psychoanalytic mediation of primitive emotional states. Part III addresses pathology, including in-depth examinations of disturbances of pre-object relatedness, ambivalent and avoidant relatedness, the repetition compulsion, trauma and enactment, and the effect of incorrect interpretations.

Synthesizing empirical findings with theoretical and clinical information, this volume is invaluable for psychoanalysts and psychodynamic therapists. It is an ideal text for graduate-level courses in psychoanalytic theory and technique, attachment theory, human development, and psychotherapy of early traumatic states.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumin, Ivri

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: The Basic Language of Primary Relatedness
1. Attachment to the Unperceived
2. Precursors of Internalized Object Relationships
3. Signal Anxiety and Environmental Mediation
Part II: Intermodal Exchange
4. Intermodal Matching and Affect Transmission
5. Intermodal Exchanges in the Psychoanalytic Situation
6. Fields of Identity
7. Creation of Representability
8. The Container of Sleep
Part III: Pathology of Pre-Object Relatedness
9. Two Disturbances of Pre-Object Relatedness
10. Ambivalent Relatedness and Avoidant Relatedness
11. On the Repetition Compulsion
12. Trauma and Enactment
13. The Incorrect Interpretation

Über Autor(innen)

Ivri Kumin, M.D., is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis. He serves as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Before moving to Seattle, Dr. Kumin was the Associate Director of the Psychoanalytic Program at Tulane University School of Medicine.