Understanding Infants Psychoanalytically: A Post-Jungian Perspective on Michael Fordham's Model of Development

This book explores Michael Fordham's model of infant development, which extends Jung's theory to infancy and childhood, and proposes five key areas that contribute to it. It is based on observations and experiences in a London child and adolescent unit and a mother and baby unit and provides a deeper understanding of infant development in the context of the relationship with parents.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 29 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Focusing on infants and the relationship between child and parent, this book presents a discourse on eminent Jungian child analyst Michael Fordham's model of development that extended Jung's theory to infancy and childhood. In this book, Elizabeth Urban, a Jungian psychotherapist in weekly conversations with Fordham, proposes five key areas, such as identifying periods of primary self-functioning and the active participation of the infant in development, that contribute to the Fordham model of infant development. Drawing extensively on her observations and experiences working in a London child and adolescent unit, and a mother and baby unit, as well as using real-life observations to support the proposed contributions, the author provides a deeper understanding of infant development in the context of the relationship with the parents.

This book is a unique contribution to the study of child development and is of great interest to paediatricians, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals who work with children and their parents.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032105062