Pre-Object Relatedness: Early Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
"This is the best compilation and synthesis of current knowledge of infant and mother/infant development available today. I have found it invaluable in teaching psychoanalytic candidates theories of early infant development, and have also found it extremely useful in understanding the genesis of character formation in borderline disorders and disorders of narcissism."--Charles A. Mangham, M.D."This is an important book. Dr. Kumin has successfully undertaken a much needed integration of current findings in infancy research with psychoanalytic thinking, combining empirical findings with theory and clinical experience in a most impressive way." --Anne-Marie Sandler, Director, The Anna Freud Centre"Drawing on a wide spectrum of psychoanalytic theories, empirical research data, and clinical findings, Kumin has constructed a rich phenomenology of the earliest phase in the development of the subjective world, an account that will be invaluable to all therapists who seek to treat archaic mental states." --Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D."An excellent, important, and most useful book....This is the 30th anniversary of my graduation from the Institute, but this volume is the single most helpful book in improving my work....The best psychoanalytic book I have read in a long time, the book will enrich any analyst's practice.... BRAVO!" --Henry Krystal, M.D."Ivri Kumin has managed to conceptualize the preverbal, mental world of the infant and to show its later ramifications, particularly in the transference of the psychoanalytic situation. His book will be of great aid to psychoanalysts and other depth psychotherapists in their task as healers." --Arthur W. Epstein, M.D."...an excellent survey of the literature on mother/infant interaction in the first year of life.   ...Easily readable and packed with cogent excerpts from the literature. This tightly woven quality stimulates the reader to reflect on every page and apply what Kumin has written to clinical material, both current and past. I highly recommend this book for all analysts who want to understand the theoretical developmental background of character pathology and the pathology of borderline and psychotic patients. It also should prove to be a valuable took in teaching infant observation to students of both child and adult analysis." --Charles A Mangham, MD, Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis, Winter 1996