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This volume offers a concise integration of psychoanalytic modern ego psychology and contemporary developmental science, using the basic concepts of psychoanalysis and dynamic systems theory.
This work presents a modern, psychoanalytically-informed chronological view of how the mind develops from infancy through young adulthood.