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Download Author: Lidz, Theodore, M.D.


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The Toddler

Although a smooth passage from fifteen to thirty-six months is not impossible, it is unlikely. The toddler’s developmental situation almost inevitably creates difficulties for both child and parents. The extent and nature of the problems, and just when they arise, vary with the child, the parents’ sensitivities, and the child-rearing practices they utilize.

The Person: His and Her Development Throughout the Life Cycle

This book has been accepted as the definitive text of personality development. “Dr. Lidz brings to THE PERSON a rich experience as an academician, theorist, and clinician. What especially comes through is the warm, compassionate clinician calling on a lifetime of experience and intimacy with the literature.” Psychiatrist’s Bookshelf (940 pp.)

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“…an opus….Dr. Lidz brings to The Person a rich experience as an academician, theorist, and clinician. What especially comes through…is the warm compassionate clinician calling on a lifetime of experience and intimacy with the literature.”
—Psychiatrist’s Bookshelf

“This book would make for the Martian ambassador in Washington a splendid introduction to the facts of life, from womb to tomb, in North America today.”
—British Journal of Psychiatry

The Life Cycle:Introduction

The psychodynamic understanding of the personality and its disorders rests heavily upon the study of the life cycle. All persons go through a cycle of gestation, maturation, maturity, decline and death. The epigenetic principle maintains that the critical tasks of each developmental phase must be met and surmounted at the proper time. Erikson’s and Piaget’s approaches are discussed. (37 pp.)

The Family: The Developmental Setting

The child’s development into an integrated individual is guided by the dynamic organization of his family, which channels his drives and directs him into proper gender and generation roles. The child must grow into and internalize the institutions and roles of the society as well as identify with persons who themselves have assimilated the culture. (39 pp.)

The Human Endowment

Reviews what human children bring into the world with them, considering certain essentials of what they acquire during the ten dark lunar months in the womb and then what they must assimilate in order to survive and develop into individuals.

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