Selected Writings of Selma Fraiberg
Social worker, psychoanalyst, and child-development expert Selma Fraiberg’s iconic book, The Magic Years, has influenced generations of caregivers, therapists, and clinicians since its publication in 1959. No less rich are the essays that make up this new, accessibly priced reissue of her Selected Writings.   Like The Magic Years, these essays (including her hugely influential “Ghosts in the Nursery”) glean their insights from years of clinical study and contain Fraiberg’s synthesis of and groundbreaking contributions to attachment theory, child psychology, social work, and, through her work with blind children, the experience of disability in infancy and childhood. Clinical rigor paired with attunement to the emotional lives of her subjects was Fraiberg’s hallmark: as her husband Louis writes in his preface to this volume, “Once, when asked how she knew what babies were thinking, she replied, ‘They tell me.’” Lucid and elegantly written, her Selected Writings will remain a valuable resource for new generations of social workers, mental-health professionals, educators, and others who work with young children.  
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Selected Writings of Selma Fraiberg
Social worker, psychoanalyst, and child-development expert Selma Fraiberg’s iconic book, The Magic Years, has influenced generations of caregivers, therapists, and clinicians since its publication in 1959. No less rich are the essays that make up this new, accessibly priced reissue of her Selected Writings.   Like The Magic Years, these essays (including her hugely influential “Ghosts in the Nursery”) glean their insights from years of clinical study and contain Fraiberg’s synthesis of and groundbreaking contributions to attachment theory, child psychology, social work, and, through her work with blind children, the experience of disability in infancy and childhood. Clinical rigor paired with attunement to the emotional lives of her subjects was Fraiberg’s hallmark: as her husband Louis writes in his preface to this volume, “Once, when asked how she knew what babies were thinking, she replied, ‘They tell me.’” Lucid and elegantly written, her Selected Writings will remain a valuable resource for new generations of social workers, mental-health professionals, educators, and others who work with young children.  
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Social worker, psychoanalyst, and child-development expert Selma Fraiberg’s iconic book, The Magic Years, has influenced generations of caregivers, therapists, and clinicians since its publication in 1959. No less rich are the essays that make up this new, accessibly priced reissue of her Selected Writings.   Like The Magic Years, these essays (including her hugely influential “Ghosts in the Nursery”) glean their insights from years of clinical study and contain Fraiberg’s synthesis of and groundbreaking contributions to attachment theory, child psychology, social work, and, through her work with blind children, the experience of disability in infancy and childhood. Clinical rigor paired with attunement to the emotional lives of her subjects was Fraiberg’s hallmark: as her husband Louis writes in his preface to this volume, “Once, when asked how she knew what babies were thinking, she replied, ‘They tell me.’” Lucid and elegantly written, her Selected Writings will remain a valuable resource for new generations of social workers, mental-health professionals, educators, and others who work with young children.  

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814282762
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 01/27/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 722
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Selma Fraiberg was one of the most influential child-development experts of the twentieth century, having developed therapeutic innovations that remain integral to children’s mental-health treatment today. She is the author of The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood, Every Child’s Birthright: In Defense of Mothering, and other foundational books and papers.   Louis Fraiberg was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toledo and the author of Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism.

Table of Contents

Selected Writings of Selma Fraiberg, Edited by Louis Fraiberg with a Foreword by Robert N. Emde, M.D. Title page Copyright page Contents Foreword: Selma Fraiberg: Essayist, Clinician, and Scientific Pathfinder Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Developmental and Theoretical Contributions 1: The Origins of Human Bonds 2: Libidinal Object Constancy and Mental Representation 3: The Muse in the Kitchen: A Case Study in Clinical Research 4: Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships. With Edna Adelson and Vivian Shapiro. 5: Infant-Parent Psychotherapy on Behalf of a Child in a Critical Nutritional State. With Vivian Shapiro and Edna Adelson. 6: The Adolescent Mother and Her Infant 7: Pathological Defenses in Infancy Part II: Clinical Findings 8: Enlightenment and Confusion 9: Clinical Notes on the Nature of Transferencein Child Analysis 10: Tales of the Discovery of the Secret Treasure 11: Some Considerations in the Introduction to Therapy in Puberty 12: A Therapeutic Approach to Reactive Ego Disturbances in Children in Placement 13: Technical Aspects of the Analysis of a Child with a Severe Behavior Disorder 14: Further Considerations of the Role of Transference in Latency 15: The Clinical Dimension of Baby Games Part III: Social Work Education 16: On Therapy 17: Some Aspects of Casework with Children 18: Psychoanalysis and the Education of Caseworkers 19: Legacies and Prophecies Part IV: Blindness in Childhood 20: Studies in the Ego Development of the Congenitally Blind Child.With David A. Freedman, M.D. 21: Smiling and Stranger Reaction in Blind Infants 22: Self-Representation in Language and Play: Observations of Blind Children. With Edna Adelson. 23: The Development of Human Attachments in Infants Blind from Birth Part V: Applications 24: The Mass Media: New Schoolhouse for Children 25: The American Reading Problem 26: The Science of Thought Control 27: Morals and Psychoanalysis 28: Kafka and the Dream 29: Two Modern Incest Heroes Chronological Bibliography of the Selected Writings of Selma Fraiberg Index
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