On the early development of the self: Its role in neurosis

1962 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack L. Rubins
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Ann Horne

The Introduction to Volume 8 elicits the key concepts Winnicott was developing in 1967-68, beginning in January 1967 with his talk on his own theories of development at the ‘52 Club, citing those who influenced him and those from whom he acquired ideas. The author proceeds to examine ‘The Use of an Object’, viewed by Claire Winnicott as the culmination of his thinking, a talk given at the NYPSI in November 1968. There is comment on Winnicott’s approach to observation and the scientific method, on culture and playing, and a fuller picture of friends and interests from the 1967 IPA conference. Failures in early development are explored but the main focus is the emergence of the self as real and the recognition of a real object that can be used (from ‘Mirror-role of mother and family’ to ‘The use of an object’) and the parallel between the early mother-infant relationship and the analyst-patient relationship. Thoughts on technique conclude the paper.


2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ((1)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Seligman

This paper conceptualizes the self and related concepts so as to emphasize interrelatedness rather than autonomy. From this view of a subject embedded in relationships as a point of departure, it then critiques and restates certain analyticallyoriented concepts so as to render them in a more fully intersubjective frame: “affect attunement” (Stern, 1985), “mirroring” (Kohut, 1977), empathy, and projective identification. This approach draws on drawing on the infant observation research that has emerged in recent decades.


2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vivian Camacho Grageda ◽  
Yoshitaka Sakakura ◽  
Atsushi Hagiwara

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 733-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Lindsey ◽  
Robert W. Harrington Jr.

Embryos from one clone of Rivulus marmoratus were reared at various constant temperatures ranging from 19.5 to 31.2C, sustained throughout early development, or else were transferred from 26 to 20C after various periods of development. Resultant vertebral counts were progressively lower at higher sustained temperatures (ranging from 34.94 to 32.57). Vertebral differences expressed as a percentage of the total count were greater in this (7.0%) than in previously reported comparable experiments on 14 other fish species (4.1% or less). In most previous experiments meristic variation may have been due, at least in part, to selective mortality acting on a varied gene pool. In R. marmoratus the high degree of genetic uniformity eliminates the likelihood of selective mortality as a cause of vertebral variation, which must therefore have been environmentally induced. Pectoral ray counts also were lower at higher sustained temperatures; other meristic series did not show sharp responses. Temperature transfer experiments showed that vertebral counts are determined within 4 days at 26C (by first appearance of retinal pigmentation). Pectoral ray counts are not fully determined until about 8 days, shortly before hatching. Temperature breaks produced "shock effect" in pectoral rays but not in vertebrae. The bearing of homozygosity on amplitude of temperature-induced vertebral variation is discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 189 (8) ◽  
pp. 1384-1395 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Prino ◽  
T. Pasta ◽  
F. G. M. Gastaldi ◽  
C. Longobardi

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.


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