Relationships in Development Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment by Stephen Seligman

Acknowledgments -- How we got here: a roadmap to psychoanalytic theories of childhood and development -- Childhood has meaning of its own: freud and the invention of psychoanalysis -- A. freud's legacy for developmental psychoanalysis: childhood at the origins -- B. real women and children: the emergence of child psychoanalysis -- Theory i: foreshadowings: core themes and controversies in the early freudian theories -- The baby at the crossroads: the structural model, ego psychology, and object relations theories -- A. ego psychology: psychic structure, adaptation, and external realities -- B. kleinian psychoanalysis: internal objects, phantasies, and the centrality of the infantile primitive mind -- The middle group: toward a relationship-based theory of psychic realities and environments -- Theory ii: what is a "robust developmental perspective?"--The postwar diversification and pluralization of psychoanalysis in the united states: interdisciplinary expansion, the widening clinical scope and the new developmentalism -- The relational baby: intersubjectivity and infant development -- Infancy research: toward a relational-developmental psychoanalysis -- Clinical implications of infancy research: affect, interaction and non-verbal meaning in the dyadic field -- Theory iii: the relational baby: psychoanalytic theory and technique -- Continuities from infancy to adulthood: the baby is out of the bathwater -- Theory iv: the move to the maternal: gender, sexualities, and the oedipus complex in light of intersubjective developmental research -- Attachment and recognition in clinical process: reflection, regulation and emotional security -- Intersubjectivity today: the orientation and concept -- Attachment theory and research in context: clinical implications -- Recognition and mentalization in infancy and psychotherap y: convergences of attachment theory and psychoanalysis -- Mentalization and metaphor, acknowledgement and grief: forms of transformation in the reflective space -- Infant-parent interactions, phantasies, and an "internal two-person psychology": projective identification and the intergenerational transmission of early trauma in kleinian theory and intersubjective infant research -- Vitality, activity, and communication in development and psychotherapy -- Coming to life in time: temporality, early deprivation, and the sense of a lively future -- Forms of vitality and other integrations: daniel stern's contribution to the psychoanalytic core -- Awareness, confusion and uncertainty: nonlar dynamics in everyday practice -- Feeling puzzled while paying attention: the analytic mindset as an agent of therapeutic change -- Dynamic systems theories as a basic framework for psychoanalysis: change processes in development and therapeutic action -- Searching for core principles: louis sander's synthesis of biological, psychological, and relational factors and contemporary developmental psychodynamics