Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

215 Pages·1999·0.72 MB·English

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Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective is a
comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality
development. Beginning with intra-utero life and going through to
early adulthood, it focuses on the emotional tasks involved at each
stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and
external circumstances. Central importance is given to attachment
and to psychoanalytic concepts, such as the Oedipal complex,
separation and individuation, and the development of the capacity
to think. The emotional processes are seen as ‘states of mind’ rather
than fixed stages.
Using considerable new clinical and observational material,
Personality Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective will be of
interest to those teaching personality development courses, as well
as mental health and child care professionals.
Debbie Hindle is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist.
Marta Vaciago Smith is a consultant child and adolescent
psychotherapist with the Community Mental Health Trust in Leeds.
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Notes on contributors vi
Preface by Margaret Rustin x
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction 1
DEBBIE HINDLE AND MARTA VACIAGO SMITH
2 Intra-uterine life and the experience of birth 13
RUTH SEGLOW AND HAMISH CANHAM
3 Babyhood: Becoming a person in the family 33
LISA MILLER
4 The toddler and the wider world 48
DEBORAH STEINER
5 Kings, queens and factors: The latency period
revisited 71
JUDITH EDWARDS
6 ‘It’s just an ordinary pain:’ Thoughts on joy and
heartache in puberty and early adolescence 92
MONICA LANYADO
7 Adolescence: A personal identity in a topsy-turvy
world 116
CHARLOTTE JARVIS
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8 The transition from late adolescence to young
adulthood: Oedipal themes 138
LYNDA MILLER
9 The transition from late adolescence to young
adulthood: Student life 158
DAVID HARDIE
Endpiece 175
DEBBIE HINDLE AND MARTA VACIAGO SMITH
References 177
Selected reading list 186
Directory of further learning opportunities 190
Index 193
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Hamish Canham is a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the
Tavistock Clinic, tutor on the Observational Studies course
and on Clinical Training in Child Psychotherapy, and joint
organising tutor of the Emotional Factors in Learning and
Teaching courses.
Judith Edwards is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist
working in a Family Consultation Centre and teaching child
development at the Tavistock Clinic. She is currently joint editor
of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Previous publications
include chapters in Autism and personality (edited by A. Alvarez
& S. Reid, Routledge, 1999), the Handbook of child and
adolescent psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic approach (A. Horne
& M. Lanyado, Routledge, 1999); and Unwilling to school (Berg
& Nursten, Gaskill, 1996).
David Hardie is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who has
worked in student health for 20 years, has taught on the Tavistock
course on Counselling in Education, and on the Diploma in
Student Counselling and the MSc in Counselling at Burbeck
College. From 1976 to 1979 he was Head of Education at Peper
Harrow Therapeutic Community.
Debbie Hindle is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist.
She was the founding organiser of the Nottingham Infant
Observation and Work Discussion course, and has worked in
the public sector for many years. She currently is a visiting
lecturer at the Under Fives Study Center, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville.
Charlotte Jarvis is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who has
specialised in work with adolescents, and has worked at the
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Brandon Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She teaches
and lectures at the Tavistock Clinic and on various other courses
in Great Britain. Currently she is Director of Open Door, Hornsey
Young Peoples Consultation Service.
Monica Lanyado helped to found the Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapy training in Scotland and remains involved with
training issues at the British Association of Psychotherapists in
London. She carried out clinical research on sexually abusive
behaviour in young adolescent boys at Great Ormond Street
Hospital, London. She is former co-editor of the Journal of Child
Psychotherapy and joint editor with Anne Horne of the
Handbook of child and adolescent psychotherapy:
Psychoanalytic approach (Routledge, 1999). She is currently
in private practice.
Lisa Miller, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, is Chair
of Children and Families Department, Tavistock Clinic. Her
special interest is in infant observation and work with under-5s.
She was formally organiser of the ‘Under 5 Counselling service’
at the Tavistock Clinic and is editor of the International Journal
of Infant Observation.
Lynda Miller is a consultant psychotherapist at Enfield Child and
Family Service and in the Learning Disabilities Service at the
Tavistock Clinic. She has a special interest in working with
adolescents.
Margaret Rustin is a consultant child psychotherapist at the Tavistock
Clinic, London and has been on the senior staff of the Clinic
since 1971. Since 1986 she has been Organising Tutor of the
Tavistock Child Psychotherapy training and in 1993 she was
elected Postgraduate Dean of the Clinic. She has co-authored
with Michael Rustin Narratives of love and loss (1987), and co-
edited Closely observed infants (1989) and Psychotic states in
children (1997).
Ruth Seglow is a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the
Marlborough Family Service, London, and co-editor of the
Bulletin of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She is a
tutor on the Observational Studies course at the Tavistock Clinic
and senior leader for Counselling: Aspects in Education, run
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jointly by the Tavistock Clinic and the University of East
London.
Deborah Steiner trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at
the Tavistock Clinic and worked for many years with children
and families in child guidance. She has also trained as a
psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London.
Marta Vaciago Smith is a consultant child and adolescent
psychotherapist within the Community and Mental Health Trust,
Leeds. She is the course organiser and assistant senior lecturer
for the masters degree in Psychoanalytical Observational Studies,
Leeds University.