Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction to the Transaction Edition, chapter one The Developmental Perspective, chapter two The Primate Heritage, chapter three The Emergence of Man, chapter four Infancy, chapter five Childhood, chapter six Play, Fantasy, and Dreams, chapter seven Anxiety, Dissociation, and the Growth of Self, chapter eight Conscience and Moral Development, chapter nine Adolescence, chapter ten Identity, References, Index

About the Author

Louis Breger is professor of psychoanalytic studies emeritus at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He is a practicing psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, and is the founding president of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He has written other books and a number of scholarly articles on psychoanalytic topics including the acclaimed biography, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision, and Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst.