{"id":6786,"date":"2018-05-10T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&#038;p=6786"},"modified":"2018-05-13T20:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T20:30:43","slug":"relationships-in-development-infancy-intersubjectivity-and-attachment","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/relationships-in-development-infancy-intersubjectivity-and-attachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationships in Development:  Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Stephen Seligman<\/strong> (USA)<\/p>\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/article\/seligman-interview\/\">[here]<\/a> for an interview with Stephen Seligman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/seligmancoverimage0318w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6766 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/seligmancoverimage0318w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>Stephen Seligman\u2019s new book (Routledge, 2018) integrates current research about infancy and childhood with both traditional and current psychoanalytic approaches to present a new synthesis: <strong><em>Relational-Developmental Psychoanalysis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Its first half is a conceptually- and clinically-oriented review of analytic conceptualizations of infancy, childhood, and development, from Freud, Klein, Winnicott and the Ego Psychologists, through the present.\u00a0Seligman surveys how each psychoanalytic school creates its own \u201cmetaphor of the baby.\u201d This review has a historical orientation, too: for example, it considers the role of women who were not included in Freud&#8217;s original group, who went on to found child analysis and some of whom would become the most influential analysts of the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>It then summarizes current infancy research and its implications for psychoanalytic theories and clinical work.\u00a0\u00a0The developmental and interactional dimensions of today\u2019s Relational-intersubjective approaches are presented, along with \u201cexecutive summaries\u201d of attachment and intersubjectivity theories and the current status of \u201cthe Oedipus complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Seligman elaborates all of this in a series of clinical and conceptual papers, organized along several core dimensions that point toward a new view of analytic theory:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognition, reflection, and emotional security;<\/li>\n<li>Vitality, activity, and communication;<\/li>\n<li>Awareness, uncertainty, confusion, and complexity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen Seligman\u2019s new book is a valuable contribution to the psychoanalytic dialogue concerning developmental theory and its implications for analytic practice.\u00a0 His discussion of \u201crelational-developmental psychoanalysis\u201d is without parallel.\u00a0\u00a0It seems to me to pick up where Greenberg and Mitchell\u2019s 1983 classic,\u00a0<em>Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory,<\/em>\u00a0leaves off. He presents in a highly readable way a multi-disciplinary approach that includes direct infant observation, experience with patients in psychoanalysis, as well as social, historical and biological contributions.\u00a0 The result is a compelling study of twenty-first century psychoanalysis, which will enrich the perspectives of psychoanalysts and infant observers, as well as students of any field that takes as its object of study the human condition in all of its complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00a0\u2013 Thomas H. Ogden,\u00a0<\/em><em>author most recently of\u00a0Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis\u00a0and\u00a0Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an outstanding book.\u00a0\u00a0It provides a masterly account of developments in psychoanalysis particularly in relation to its theories of childhood and development. The account leads toward relational analysis yet takes off in highly original directions in its discussion of the importance of puzzled and open attention and the implications for the development of the sense of time and of the future in patients filled with a sense of futility. The chapters on the link between temporality and intentionality are fascinating and need urgently to be read by all clinicians.\u00a0\u00a0The whole book is wonderfully clear in the way its links infant observation and psychoanalysis.\u00a0\u00a0It is also\u00a0a great read.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00a0\u2013 Anne Alvarez,\u00a0<\/em><em>Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist; retired Co-Convenor, Autism Service, Tavistock Clinic, London; Honorary Member, Psychoanalytic Center of California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis profoundly integrative work takes us on a remarkable journey through psychoanalysis from the point of view of infancy and child development. Weaving together past and present, directly informing our clinical work with immediacy and energy, this book is superb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Beatrice Beebe<\/em><em>,\u00a0Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians &amp; Surgeons, Columbia University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/seligmanphoto0318w.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6767 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/seligmanphoto0318w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>Stephen Seligman, DMH,<\/strong>\u00a0is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; Joint Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0<em>Psychoanalytic Dialogues;\u00a0<\/em>Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; and Clinical Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He is also co-editor of the American Psychiatric Press\u2019\u00a0<em>Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;:&#x73;&#x74;e&#112;&#x68;e&#110;&#x2e;s&#101;&#x6c;i&#103;&#x6d;a&#110;&#x33;&#x33;&#49;&#x40;&#x67;&#109;&#x61;&#x69;l&#x2e;&#x63;o&#109;\">Email Stephen Seligman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:\u00a0 <\/strong>The book is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Relationships-in-Development-Infancy-Intersubjectivity-and-Attachment\/Seligman\/p\/book\/9780415880022\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Relationships-in-Development-Infancy-Intersubjectivity-and-Attachment\/Seligman\/p\/book\/9780415880022<\/a>, with a 20% discount available with code IRK71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Seligman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":5,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[59],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-bookshelf-special-edition-may-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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