ABSTRACT

In this original and highly readable book Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of how young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures.

chapter 1|10 pages

• 1 • Introduction and overview

chapter 2|15 pages

• 2 • The physical perspective

chapter 3|23 pages

• 3 • The formation of concepts

chapter 4|26 pages

• 4 • Intentional behaviour

chapter 6|14 pages

• 6 • The unattached infant

chapter 8|21 pages

• 8 • The basic units of experience

chapter 10|29 pages

• 10 • The language of splitting

chapter 11|25 pages

• 11 • Feeling ‘grand’

chapter 12|24 pages

• 12 • The joy of being

chapter 13|14 pages

• 13 • The language of relationships

chapter |2 pages

PART 5 SPLITS

chapter 15|9 pages

• 15 • Renée

part |2 pages

PART 6 HOLDING AND HEALING