1st Edition

The Development of Consciousness An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis

By Giampaolo Sasso Copyright 2007
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    The EFPP (European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) promotes communication and discussion between psychotherapists across national boundaries in the child and adolescent, adult, family and group sections of the organisation, through its conferences and seminars on topics of interest in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The organisation represents some 13,000 psychoanalytic psychotherapists in 22 countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and is concerned with many matters which are relevant to the profession, such as training and registration. To learn more about the EFPP conferences and activities see www.efpp.org.

    Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- The cultural inheritance of Project for a Scientific Psychology -- Recent progress in the field of neuroscience -- The current idea of a child's mental development -- A new model of brain development -- Drive dynamics and maternal modulation -- Normal and pathogenic development of mother-child interaction -- Defence structures and the development of consciousness -- The origin of language -- Child development and the integration of psychoanalysis and neuroscience -- The unresolved problems of Freudian metapsychology -- Conclusion

    Biography

    Giampaolo Sasso is a practising psychotherapist and psychoanalytst living in Milan. He is a member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, which forms part of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is also an linguist and has had a number of books published in Italy.