ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter TWO|29 pages

Recent progress in the field of neuroscience

chapter THREE|13 pages

The current idea of a child's mental development

chapter FOUR|42 pages

A new model of brain development

chapter FIVE|27 pages

Drive dynamics and maternal modulation

chapter EIGHT|33 pages

The origin of language

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion