Development & Life Span Issues

(1-2 Credits)

Early relationships and mental representations orient psychoanalysts and inform their clinical thinking and actions. Contemporary developmental research is enjoying a renaissance with advances in infant and attachment research and their implications for adult psychoanalytic treatment. Similarly, life-span theories have added considerable understanding and ways of working with not only individuals and their aging processes, but also couples and families. This area of study contains various course sections addressing selected topics.