Fred Pine

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth.

This book contains a series of interrelated essays on the themes of developmental process and therapeutic process. It also addresses a number of developmental problems, selected because of their significance in the clinical process. Dr. Pine speaks with authority on the worlds of child development and clinical process, concrete methods and data of child observation, and classic psychoanalysis.