Normality and Pathology in Childhood

Assessments of Development

Anna Freud (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-09966-4 (ISBN)

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The author's book deals with a most neglected aspect of psychoanalysis - normality. Its chief concern is with the ordinary problems of upbringing which face all parents and the usual phenomena encountered by every clinician. Yet, though primarily practical and clinical in its approach, it also makes a major theoretical contribution to psychology. The author begins with an account of the development of analytic child psychology, its techniques and its sources in child and adult analysis and direct observation of the child. The author then describes the course of normal development, how it can be hindered or eased, what are the unavoidable stresses and strains and how variations of normality occur. The author outlines a scheme for assessing normality and for gauging and classifying pathological phenomena in terms of the obstruction of normal progress rather than the severity of symptoms. Stress is laid on the problem of predicting the outcome of infantile factors for adult pathology in the face of the child's continual development. Finally, child analysis is considered both as a therapeutic method and as a means for the advance of knowledge.

Anna Freud

Introduction , Foreword to the 1980 edition , The Psychoanalytic View of Childhood: Long-Distance and Close-Up , The Relations Between Child Analysis and Adult Analysis , The Assessment of Normality in Childhood , Assessment of Pathology Part I. Some General Considerations , Assessment of Pathology Part II. Some Infantile Prestages of Adult Psychopathology , The Therapeutic Possibilities

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
ISBN-10	0-367-09966-7 / 0367099667
ISBN-13	978-0-367-09966-4 / 9780367099664
Zustand	Neuware