Young Children and their Parents: Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Infant Observation

369 Pages·2014·2.025 MB·English

by  Gertraud Diem-Wille

YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS

YOUNG CHILDREN AND
THEIR PARENTS
Perspectives from Psychoanalytic
Infant Observation
Gertraud Diem-Wille
Translated by Benjamin Mcquade
Originally published in Germany as Das Kleinkind und Seine Eltern: Perspektiven
Psychoanalytischer Babybeobachtung © 2009 W. Kohlhammer GmbH Stuttgart.
First published in English in 2014 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2014 by Gertraud Diem-Wille
Translated from the German by Benjamin Mcquade.
The translation was prepared with financial support from the Austrian Science
Fund ( ).
The right of Gertraud Diem-Wille to be identified as the author of this work
has been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and
Patents Act 1988.
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To my grandchildren Samira, Karim, and Olivia

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABOUT THE AUTHOR xi
PREFACE xiii
Margaret Rustin
FOREWORD xvii
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION xix
INTRODUCTION xxi
CHAPTER ONE
Understanding psychological development 1
CHAPTER TWO
The first year of life 63
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viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER THREE
The second year of life 191
CHAPTER FOUR
The third year of life 247
CHAPTER FIVE
Outlook and perspectives: mastering early childhood 305
REFERENCES 319
INDEX 333
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The poem by Peter Rühmkorf, “Es lohnt sich nicht” (“It’s not
worth it”) is taken from Peter Rühmkorf, Gedichte—Werke 1, edited
by Bernd Rauschenbach, copyright © 2000 Random House GmbH,
Reinbek, and the poem by Ernst Jandl is taken from Ernst Jandl, poetische
Werke, edited by Klaus Silewski, published 1997 by Luchterhand
Literaturverlag, Munich, Germany, part of theRandom House GmbH
publishing group, and both are reprinted by kind permission of the
publisher.
The two images by Emi Pikler are taken from Laßt mir Zeit by Emmi
Pikler (2001), Munich: Richard Pflaum Verlag, and are reproduced by
kind permission of the publisher.
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