3. Born on may 10,1897 into a jewish family in Sopron
in Hungary
Had troubled relationship with her mother
Studied medicine fron University of Munich
Influenced by Sandor ferenczi , a hungarian
psychoanalyst
Shifted majors from pediatrics to psychiatry
Moved to USA,there joined Newyork psychoanalytic
society
Worked on cases of childhood psychosis
4. 1. Normal autistic phase
2. Normal symbiotic phase
3. Separation–individuation phase
Hatching
Practising
Rapproachment
4. Phase of object constancy
5.
6.
7.
8. HATCHING
The infant starts
noticing that him/her
and the mother, are
not the same.
"Rupture of the
shell".
Increased alertness
and interest for the
outside world. Using
the mother as a point
of orientation.
9. PRACTISING
About 9-16 months,
infant's acquires the
ability to crawl and then
walk freely
He/she begins to
explore actively and
becomes more distant
from the mother.
The child experiences
himself still as one with
his mother.
10. This phase is further divided into sub phases
The Beginning
Crisis and
Solution.
12. In this phase,the split maternal image is now
consolidated into a stable intrapsychic
representation that is comforting the child in
the mother’s abscence
13.
14. The names given to various stages
especially autistic and symbiotic stages
The beginning phases didn’t have
observational and behavioural data
Growth in infant research reveals evidence
of infant’s awareness of their environment
and their ability to respond to external
stimuli
15. On human symbiosis and the vicissitudes of
individuation, 1969.
The psychological birth of the human infant
symbiosis and individuation, 1975.
Infantile psychosis and early contributions
Rapprochement critical subphase in separation
individuation
Separation individuation