The Developmental Architecture of Psychoanalysis

A Developmental Re-Reading of Psychoanalytic Thought

Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D.

About This Book

Why do major psychoanalytic thinkers often seem to describe different inner worlds? This book uses a Five-Stage developmental architecture to place major psychoanalytic traditions in relation to one another without erasing their differences or turning development into a moral ranking.

What You’ll Explore

Fear and dependence; anger and counter-dependence; guilt and reparation; freedom and independence; empathy and integration; developmental arrest and therapeutic timing; and developmental re-readings of Klein, Winnicott, Mahler, Bion, Fonagy, intersubjectivity, mutual recognition, trauma, creativity, society, and repair.

Who This Book Is For

For clinicians, students, educators, and serious readers of psychoanalysis who want an integrative developmental map for understanding a century of psychoanalytic ideas.