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It is surprising that there is so little consideration in our literature of the exciting work in infant and neonatal research. This is particularly puzzling in view of our concern with the widening scope of analysis, with formative preoedipal and preverbal experience, and with reconstruction in analytic work. In this book, Dr. Lichtenberg sets out to remedy this neglect, and does so with enthusiasm and thoroughness. This is not an edited collection of papers on infant research; rather, it is a unified presentation reflecting the author's devotion to integrating these research findings. A special interest in the development of the sense of the self guides this work.
The book is organized in four sections. Three of them—"The Neonate, The First Year of Life, and The Second Year of Life—constitute a little over half the book. In these pages Lichtenberg addresses "the challenge for psychoanalytic theory from neonate research," the development of the sense of the self and of the object, self-object differentiation in the first year, and the development of fantasy, emotion, memory, psychic representation, and defense. The final section of the book, Applications, is concerned with the applications of the findings to problems of theory and technique. This includes an exploration of curative aspects of analysis, the modification