The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation [Paperback]

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.

Fred Pineis Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, author ofDevelopmental Theory and Clinical Process(1985) and, with Margaret Mahler and Anni Bergman,The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant(Basic Books, 1975) and a practicing adult psychoanalyst.