Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Book Overview

Personality Development is a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances.
Contents include:
* intra-uterine life and the experience of birth
* babyhood: becoming a person in the family
* the toddler and the wider world
* the latency period.
Using clinical and observational material, it will be of interest to those teaching personality development courses, as well as mental health and child care professionals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415179580
• ISBN13: 9780415179584
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.9"