Human Growth and the Development of Personality

Foreword to the First EditionIntroduction to the Third EditionIntroduction to the Second EditionIntroduction to the First EditionAcknowledgments1. Human Needs Assumptions on Growth Home and School Targets of Professional Activity The Individual and the Culture Recognizing Differences Methods of Study Organized and Unorganized Help Professional Help at Different Levels: Points of Growth Levels of Description: Diagnosis Incompleteness of Provision for Essential Needs Help Based on Perception of Essential Needs2. Definitions of Personality Categories of Definition Testing Theories: A Pragmatic View Personality as an Assemblage of Qualities Extensions of Personality Personality as a Dynamic Interaction Description of the Physical, Intellectual and Emotional Aspects Intellectual Growth The Image and the Source Character and Temperament3. Theories of Personality Descriptive Theories Behaviorism and Learning Theory Cognitive Growth Theory Piaget's Developmental Psychology Psychodynamic Schools The Dynamic Model The Topographical Model The Structural Model The Historical Model Transference Relationships Choice of Model Other Psychoanalytical Theories (1) Anna Freud and Melanie Klein Anna Freud Melanie Klein Other Psychoanalytical Theories (2) Reich, Rank, Stekel, Adler, Jung, Erikson Jung Erikson Theory and Practice The Notion of Development4. Developmental Stages Individuality of the Baby at Birth Dependence and Independence Nature and Nurture Developmental Norms The Need to be a Parent Desire to Differentiate: Organic and Emotional Causes of Disorders Charting the Stages Transition between Stages as a Crisis or Stepping Stone5. The Suckling Breast Feeding as a Reunion with Mother Establishing the Flow of Milk: Sign Release Phenomena Mechanical and Emotional Factors Artificial Feeding: Rational and Irrational Reasons Vigor of Baby's Sucking Primitive Levels of Satisfaction and Frustration Feeding Routines Patterns of Infant Care6. Toilet Training Toilet Training as a Social Demand Maternal Attitudes to Products of Elimination Maturation of Nervous Pathways Battles of Will Tension, Relief and Gratification Bowel Activity as a Communication Control as Stage of Development Enuresis7. Infantile Sexuality Sex Differences: Physical Basis Sexual Organs and Sexual Roles Rates of Growth Cultural and Biological Factors Sensual Pleasures: Intensity of Sensual Experiences at Different Stages Genital Sensitivity Communication of Guilt Masturbatory Activities8. The Oedipal Situation Myths as Patterns of Regularly Occurring Human Situations Present-day Implications The Oedipus Legend in Full Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael and Sarah Maturation as an Historical and as a Personal Process Emphasis by Omission Acting the Drama in Fantasy Repression of Sexual Component Parents as Participants: Abnormality Latency Period Continuity9. Rejection: Reappraisal Revealing the Basic Attitudes in Professional Workers Hidden Acceptance in a Rejecting Mother Universality of Rejection Competing Needs Pathological Situations Factors Relating to the Marital Situation or Status Factors Concerning the Child Factors Concerning the Pregnancy and Delivery Factors Relating to Deep Emotional Disturbances of Either Parent Rejection Processes Rejection Feelings: Reality and Fantasy Balance of Rejection and Acceptance; Mothering Breakdown and Distress Reciprocal Rejection: Children's Fantasies About Parents10.