ABSTRACT

Personality Development is a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances.
Contents include:
* intra-uterine life and the experience of birth
* babyhood: becoming a person in the family
* the toddler and the wider world
* the latency period.
Using clinical and observational material, it will be of interest to those teaching personality development courses, as well as mental health and child care professionals.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

ByDEBBIE HINDLE AND MARTA VACIAGO SMITH

chapter 2|20 pages

Intra-uterine life and the experience of birth

ByRUTH SEGLOW, HAMISH CANHAM

chapter 3|15 pages

Babyhood: Becoming a person in the family

ByLISA MILLER

chapter 4|23 pages

The toddler and the wider world

ByDEBORAH STEINER

chapter 5|21 pages

Kings, queens and factors: The latency period revisited

ByJUDITH EDWARDS

chapter 7|22 pages

Adolescence: A personal identity in a topsy-turvy world

ByCHARLOTTE JARVIS