Pre-object relatedness
Subtitle: early attachment and the psychoanalytic situation
By: Ivri Kumin.
Series: The Guilford psychoanalysis series
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Object relations (Psychoanalysis); Attachment behavior.; Emotions in infants.; Ego (Psychology); Psychoanalysis.; Relatedness (Psychology)
Description: "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.".

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-231) and index.