Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult Life

Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult Life
Author: Sarah Fels Usher
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317218418

Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult life: Leaving Home focuses on the developmental task of separating from parents and siblings for individuals and couples who have not been able to resolve these issues earlier in life. Sarah Fels Usher extends Mahler’s theory, and includes the writing of Loewald and Modell, among others, stressing the right of adult patients to a separate life. She describes the predicament of Oedipal victors (or victims), their introjected feelings of responsibility for their parents, and their resultant inability to be truly individuated adults. Difficulties separating from siblings are also given analytic attention. Usher’s experience treating couples adds a new and powerful dimension to her theory. She is optimistic throughout about the therapist’s ability to help adult patients resolve the rapprochement sub-phase in a satisfying manner. An additional, crucial question is raised when the author asks if the therapist can allow the patient to terminate treatment. Has the therapist achieved separation from their own parents—or, indeed, from their analyst? Exploring the plight of patients of the unseparated analyst, Usher describes how these generational factors rear their unfortunate heads when it is time to end therapy. Listening to patients from the perspective of separation-individuation is not new; what is new is Usher’s emphasis on how these particular issues are often masked by significant achievement in adult professional life. Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult Life: Leaving Home will be of great importance for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists working with adults, as well as for clinical postgraduate students.

Separation/individuation

Separation/individuation
Author: Joyce Edward
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1992
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780876306970

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Separation-individuation

Separation-individuation
Author: Margaret S. Mahler
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 263
Release: 1994
Genre: Child psychology
ISBN: 9781568212241

A collection of the papers of Margaret S. Mahler, providing an exposition of the development of Mahler's essential concepts.

Handbook of Developmental Psychology

Handbook of Developmental Psychology
Author: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2003-02-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780761962311

Comprehensive and authoritative this handbook pushes back the frontiers of the study of human development in one single volume. It makes an ideal reference for experienced individuals who wish to update their understanding and remain at the cutting edge of developmental psychology.

The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation

The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation
Author: Margaret S. Mahler
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008-08-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 078672532X

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth. Available for the first time in paperback to a new generation of students and clinicians on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its original publication.

Identity in Adolescence

Identity in Adolescence
Author: Jane Kroger
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780415281072

Fully updated to include the most recent research and theoretical developments in the field, the third edition of Identity in Adolescence examines the two way interaction of individual and social context in the process of identity formation. Setting the developmental tradition in context, Jane Kroger begins by providing a brief overview of the theoretical approaches to adolescent identity formation currently in use. This is followed by a discussion of five developmental models which reflect a range of attempts from the oldest to among the most recent efforts to describe this process and include the work of Erik Erikson, Peter Blos, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, and Robert Kegan. Although focussing on each theorist in turn, this volume also goes on to compare and integrate the varied theoretical models and research findings and sets out some of the practical implications for social response to adolescents. Different social and cultural conditions and their effect on the identity formation process are also covered as are contemporary contextual, narrative, and postmodern approaches to understanding and researching identity issues. The book is ideal reading for students of adolescence, identity and developmental psychology.

Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult

Psychotherapy of the Borderline Adult
Author: James F. Masterson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1976
Genre: Adulthood
ISBN: 9780876301272

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Margaret Mahler

Margaret Mahler
Author: Alma Halbert Bond
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786482559

Margaret Mahler was from a young age intrigued by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Hungarian psychoanalysts such as Sandor Ferenzci, with whom she became acquainted while a student in Budapest. Forced to flee Europe and rising anti-Semitism, Margaret and her husband, Paul, came to the United States in 1938. It was after this move that Mahler performed her most significant research and developed concepts such as the ground-breaking theory of separation-individuation, an idea which was given credence by Mahler's own relationship with her father. This volume details the life and work of Margaret Mahler focusing on her life's ambition--her psychoanalytical work. Her experiences with the Philadelphia Institute and her definitive research through the Masters Children's Clinic are also discussed.