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• Title page
• Imprint page
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Basic concepts and principles in developmental psychology
• Debates within developmental psychology
• Does development follow theory, or does theory follow development?
• Considering the contexts within which development occurs
• Conclusion
• Section One: Psychoanalytic approaches to development and personality
• Chapter 2: A basic introduction to psychoanalytic thought
• A brief historical introduction
• Star players on the early and current psychoanalytic stage
• Key psychoanalytic developmental assumptions
• A critique of psychoanalytic assumptions
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 3: Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of development and personality
• Freud, psychoanalysis and developmental psychology
• The concept of the unconscious
• Infantile and adult sexuality
• Psychosexual stages of development
• The Oedipus complex
• The structure of the mind
• The role of defences
• Pathology and neurosis
• The role of dreams
• Critiques of Freud’s developmental theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 4: Klein’s object relations theory of development and personality
• Introductory concepts
• Theoretical focus
• Psychological birth and selfhood
• The concept of an internal world
• The concept of psychic structure
• Innate capacity
• Positions
• A critique of Kleinian theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 5: Fairbairn’s contributions to object relations theory
• Introductory concepts
• Infantile dependency and the theory of motivation
• Theory of development and primary identification
• Endopsychic structure and the schizoid condition
• Fairbairn’s model of psychopathology
• Treatment Implications
• A mindmap of Fairbairn’s ideas
• Limitations and achievements of Fairbairn’s theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 6: Wilfred Bion: Thinking, feeling and the search for truth
• Introduction
• The significance of thinking in normal and thought-disordered people
• The development of thinking and the capacity for thought: the role of maternal reverie and containme
• Projective identification and the intersubjective origins of thinking
• The application of Bion’s container-contained model: Infant observation and child and adult psycho
• Love, hate and the search for psychological truth
• Understanding experience and relationship interaction in terms of linking, containing, and paranoid-
• A psychoanalytic theory of psychotic mental functioning
• Psychotic and non-psychotic parts of the self
• Psychological growth and mental health
• Critiques of Bion
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 7: Donald Winnicott
• Introduction
• Winnicott’s focus
• Impingement and appropriate failure
• The process of un-integration to integration
• Holding
• Primary maternal preoccupation
• The role of the father
• Good-enough mothering
• Transitional phenomena: transitional space and the transitional object
• The true self and the false self
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 8: Kernberg’s theory of normal and pathological development
• Introduction: meeting Otto Kernberg
• Overview of Kernberg’s developmental theory
• The basic units of development
• Processes of internalisation
• Stages of normal development
• Pathological development
• Narcissism
• Critiques of Kernberg’s theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 9: Heinz Kohut: Self psychology
• The history of self psychology in psychoanalytic theory
• The development of the self
• The implications of Kohut’s model for theory and technique
• Developments in self theory
• Implications for psychoanalytic practice in South Africa
• A critique of Kohut’s self theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 10: Attachment theory
• Introduction
• Bowlby’s attachment theory
• Internal working models
• Ainsworth’s Strange Situation and the patterns of attachment
• Attachment patterns in adulthood
• Attachment and temperament
• Attachment and affect regulation
• Attachment and psychopathology
• Attachment and culture
• The impact of AIDS on childhood development in South Africa
• A critique of attachment theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 11: Jung’s analytic theory of the development of personality
• Introduction
• The three levels of the psyche
• Complexes
• Archetypes
• The dynamics of personality
• Individuation and the self
• Jung’s theory of symbols
• Types of pathology
• Psychological types
• Dreams from a Jungian analytic perspective
• Critiques of Jung
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 12: Lacan’s mirror stage
• Introduction
• The source of the ego
• Challenges facing the newborn
• The image of the self
• The enabling function of the image
• Identification with the image
• Captation’ by the image
• Alienation through the image
• Conclusion
• Critiques of Lacan
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 13: Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development
• Introduction: differences between Freud and Erikson
• Basic assumptions of Erikson’s theory
• The eight stages of psychosocial development
• Stage 1: basic trust versus basic mistrust
• Stage 2: autonomy versus shame and doubt
• Stage 3: initiative versus guilt
• Stage 4: industry versus inferiority
• Stage 5: identity versus role confusion
• Stage 6: intimacy versus isolation
• Stage 7: generativity versus stagnation
• Stage 8: integrity versus despair
• Criticisms of Erikson’s theory
• Recommended readings
• Section Two: Cognitive development
• Chapter 14: Introduction to cognitive development
• Introduction
• The structure of Section Two: Cognitive Development
• A brief history of the study of cognitived evelopment
• Key cognitive developmental assumptions
• A critique of cognitive assumptions
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 15: Piaget’s constructivist theory of cognitive development
• Introduction
• Basic concepts underlying Piaget’s theory: schemes, operations and adaptation
• Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
• Object permanence
• Imitation
• Symbolic Representation
• Criticisms of Piaget’s theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 16: Intellectual development
• Introduction
• Issues encountered when defining intelligence: What is intelligence?
• Perspectives on intellectual development
• The psychometric approach to intelligence
• Critical evaluation of the psychometric approach
• The cognitive approach to intelligence
• Critical evaluation of the cognitive approach
• The concept of ‘emotional intelligence’
• Changes in intelligence: Is global intellect rising?
• Intelligence and ageing
• Intelligence and creativity
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 17: Memory development
• What is memory?
• Models of memory
• The development of memory
• The development of memory strategies
• Metacognition
• Memory in later life
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 18: Language development
• What is language?
• The main theories of language acquisition
• The process of spoken language development
• The process of learning to read
• Disorders of language development
• The relationship between language and thought
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 19: Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning
• Introduction
• The cognitive developmental approach
• Piaget’s influence
• Kohlberg’s stages of moral development
• Critiques of Kohlberg’s theory
• Conclusion
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 20: Evolutionary psychology
• Introduction
• What is evolution?
• Mechanisms of evolutionary change
• What is an adaption?
• Key principles of an evolutionary psychology approach
• What evolutionary psychology is not
• The development of the brain and the role of genes
• Aspects of development within an evolutionarypsychology framework
• Cognitive development and evolutionary psychology
• Critiques of evolutionary psychology
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 21: Contributions of cognitive science approaches to cognitive developmental psychology
• Cognitive science approaches to the development of autobiographical memory
• Cognitive science approaches to the development of theory of mind
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 22: Vygotsky’s theory of the development of cultural tools
• Historical background
• The relationship between ontology and epistemology
• Vygotsky’s epistemological position: dialectical historical materialism
• Vygotsky’s ontological framework for understanding human development
• The role of tools in the production of human consciousness
• Human consciousness is unique: the relationship between higher and lower mental functions
• Human consciousness as the transformation of the external into the internal
• The developmental phases in the acquisitions of tools
• The role of social interaction in the development of mind
• Vygotsky’s conceptualisation of development: sociohistorical development
• Vygotsky’s description of sociohistorical development
• The historical interpretation of Vygotsky’s work
• The Western interpretation of Vygotsky
• The varying interpretations of Vygotsky’s theoretical terms
• Conclusion
• Recommended readings
• Section Three: Psychosocial and socio-political contexts of development
• Chapter 23: Developmental psychology: Critiques and contextual considerations
• The history of developmental psychology
• Critical developmental psychology
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 24: Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory of development
• The importance of a contextual approach to development
• The role of the individual in development
• Multi-person systems of interaction
• The dyad as a basic unit of analysis
• The ecological environment
• A new approach to environmental interventions
• The notion of ecological transitions
• A conclusion on the ecological perspective
• A critique of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 25: Violent crime and human development in South Africa
• Introduction
• Definitions of crime, violence and violent crime
• The extent and magnitude of violent crime in South Africa
• The cascading social impact of violent crime
• Various factors that influence human development and violent criminal behaviours
• Interactional factors and violent crime
• Developmental sequelae associated with exposure to violent crime: a focus on adolescence
• Conclusion
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 26: The effects of trauma on child development: Children in South Africa
• The South African context of childhood development
• Psychological trauma as understood within a diagnostic system
• Conclusion
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 27: Critical issues in developmental psychology
• Adopting a critical perspective
• Scrutinising some of developmental psychology’s dominant assumptions
• The powerful effects of developmental psychology
• Five basic criticisms of developmental psychology
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 28: Race, culture and psychological theory
• Introduction
• Events surrounding the birth of psychology as a discipline
• The racism of psychology
• Psychology and culture
• Psychology in a racialised society
• In search of a more appropriate psychology
• Human Development: A West African conceptual framework
• Conclusion
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 29: Gender identity: Contestations and questions
• Introduction: The relationship between ontology and epistemology
• Defining gender
• The developmental process of gender identity formation
• Explanations of gender identity formation
• Conclusion
• Recommended readings
• Chapter 30: Theory and South African developmental psychology research and literature
• Theoretical frameworks
• Conclusion
• Recommended readings
• References