CRISES OF SEPARATION: A CHALLENGE FOR INDIVIDUATION. CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES IN THE SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION PROCESS FOR MOTHER AND CHILD.
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Title
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CRISES OF SEPARATION: A CHALLENGE FOR INDIVIDUATION. CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES IN THE SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION PROCESS FOR MOTHER AND CHILD.
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Identifier
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AAI8708263
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identifier
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8708263
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Creator
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BERGMAN, ANNA EMILIE.
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Contributor
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Steve Ellman
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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This dissertation reviews the theories of Margaret S. Mahler and then continues to further exploration of both childhood psychosis and normal separation-individuation along several lines. One of these is the loss entailed in the overcoming of symbiotic needs in both mother and child. This is shown in both normal development and in pathology by way of a case study.;Another important issue covered is the development of empathy in the developing child. In this, a discontinuity is hypothesized which stems from the fact that the relationship to the mother has to be temporarily ignored at a point at which the need for separateness and individuation is very strong. A period of positive and negative empathy is conceptualized which have to be reconciled for the capacity for concern to emerge.;Another issue covered is the internalization of the mother-child relationship during the separation-individuation process and its emergence as part of character formation in children studied during a follow-up study.;In the case study of a psychotic girl, her own struggles as a mother are seen as having their roots in her own pathological separation-individuation process as well as in difficulties entailed in raising her children in a foreign culture.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
