Download or read book Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Developmental Psychology written by Joseph M. Masling and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Developmental Psychology explores the growing areas of mutual influence between psychanalytic theory and the study of human development - the impact of object relations theory on the study of infant-caretaker attachment being only one significant example. The empirical research examined in this volume highlights the expansion of psychoanalytic theory from infant and child development to a life span view, recognizing important development milestones throughout adolescence and adulthood and into the realm of aging. The book's contributors extend psychoanalytic theory into a variety of areas: mother-infant interaction, the evolving concept of "illusory mental health," the function of cognition and affect in creativity, and the increasingly clear role of hostility in suicide among younger and older adults.