Revisiting Rapprochement in the Light of Contemporary Developmental Theories

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ID8336398
AuthorsAnni Bergman (NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, , 224 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011, corresponding author), Ilan Harpaz-Rotem (National Service Research Award trainee, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine), Ilan Harpaz‐Rotem (0000-0002-6066-9406, Yale University)
Year2004
Volume52
Issue2
Pages555-569
Publication date2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00030651040520020301
PMID15222461
OpenAlexW2008444966
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

Margaret Mahler's thinking, revolutionary for its time, led to the observational study of mother-infant pairs, followed almost day by day as the preverbal infant developed into a toddler whose increasing cognitive capacities made new demands on the mother's presence and emotional availability. The rapprochement crisis, as formulated based on these observations, is reexamined in the light of contemporary theory, and the concept of co-construction is used to show how mother and toddler repair misunderstandings and inevitable conflicts. With the growth of new verbal capacities during rapprochement, the toddler moves from early, sensorimotor interactions to interactions governed by language, in the process gaining new understanding of his or her emotional life

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Toddler · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Animal Learning Development · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Psychology

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