CAS PS 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Etiology, Psychopathy, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
30 Jan 2018
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Concerned with the importance of early interactions between infant and caretaker that influence relationships throughout life. Klein taught winnicott that the capacity to feel concern and to feel guilty are psychological achievements during normal development. Symptoms are useful - not pathological or abnormal. People develop to realize empathy and concern for others. Infants born into a state of no concern/pitiless. They are able to grow and have pity/empathy. He had 3 stages of development: personality integration. They know they need food; they cry and they get food: realization. Annihilation anxiety (the fear of caretakers no being there) Impingements (problematic things that a caretaker does to a child that prevents them from fully developing. They realise their caretakers aren"t always there. False self might develop as a defense against. True self completely covered over - if false self is too successful, it takes over and true self may be. Most at risk for suicide: moderately adaptive (imitator)
