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C A Colarusso

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PubMed2000

Separation-individuation phenomena in adulthood: general concepts and the fifth individuation.

The elaboration of separation-individuation theory in the years beyond childhood has been a psychoanalytic focus for several decades. In this paper, the nature of separation-individuation phenomena in adulthood and the terminology and controversy surrounding the use of the terms third, fourth, and fifth individuation are considered first; a detailed elaboration of the concept of the fifth individuation in late adulthood follows.

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PubMed1999

The development of time sense in middle adulthood.

The focus of this paper is on the normal, intrapsychic, subjective experience of time in a developmental context. Time sense in middle age is determined less by the chronological age markers of forty or sixty and more by powerful, complex dynamic factors. Issues such as physical aging and illness, relationship to spouse and children, death of parents, and retirement will be explored in terms of how time is experienced.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1998

A developmental line of time sense. In late adulthood and throughout the life cycle.

This is the sixth and final paper in a series by the author on the normative, intrapsychic experience of time throughout the life cycle. Time sense is understood to be shaped by the primary forces that influence development at all points in the life cycle: an amalgam of past temporal conceptualizations, current developmental themes, and environmental influences. After a summary of the development of time sense in infancy, childhood, adolescence, and young and middle adulthood, this paper focuses on the experience of time after age sixty. The effect of death awareness and death anticipation, life reviews, reminiscence, and object relationships is discussed, as is the emergence of late-life generativity and wisdom. These concepts are illustrated by clinical material from the analysis of seventy-year-old woman.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1993

Play in adulthood. A developmental consideration.

This paper is about normal development, addressing the basic characteristics and evolution of play throughout life, with particular emphasis on the nature of play in adulthood. Although the psychoanalytic literature on play in childhood is extensive, undoubtedly because of its relevance to child analysis, very little has been written on the subject of adult play or on the relationship between adult play and its childhood antecedents.

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PubMed1991

The development of time sense in young adulthood.

The subjective, intrapsychic experience of time may be traced through life. The development of time sense in young adulthood (ages 20 to 40) is related to the effects of physical aging and important object relationships to spouse, children, parents, and friends. The subjective experience of the temporal modes of past, present, and future are determined by current, phase-specific influences and attitudes toward time from childhood and adolescence. As an individual approaches 40, normal functioning in relation to time implies that he or she has integrated the shift from physical progression in childhood to physical aging in adulthood, begun to deal with the idea of personal death, separated psychologically from parents, and forged new ties that shape current attitudes toward time and give meaning to life.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

The third individuation. The effect of biological parenthood on separation-individuation processes in adulthood.

The subject of this paper is the Third Individuation, the continuous process of elaboration of the self and differentiation from objects which occurs in the developmental phases of early (20 to 40) and middle (40 to 60) adulthood. Although it is influenced by all important adult object ties, at its core are involvements with children, spouse, and parents, i.e., the family, the same psychological constellation that shaped the first (Mahler) and second (Blos) individuations.

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PubMed1987

Mother, is that you?

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Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1987

Clinical implications of adult developmental theory.

Multidisciplinary studies of adulthood have revolutionized thinking about developmental processes during the second half of life. These ideas are just beginning to be integrated with clinical theory and practice. The elaboration of the interface between the rapidly expanding developmental theory of normal adulthood and clinical intervention with older patients is a psychiatric frontier. Illustrating with clinical examples, the authors offer a rationale for using new diagnostic tools, suggest a revision of the theory of transference to include sources beyond childhood, and describe unique transference paradigms in older patients as well as equally phase-specific countertransference responses in their therapists.

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PubMed1987

The development of time sense: from object constancy to adolescence.

A developmental line of time sense during the oedipal phase and latency is described. Subjective time sense is seen as constantly evolving, shaped by the emergence of cognitive capacities, significant emotional themes, and environmental influences. Temporal development during these phases is unique because the capacity to tell objective time is present for the first time. Significant emotional influences are the Oedipus complex, infantile neurosis, and superego formation. The concepts of Mother Time and Father Time are presented as useful descriptors of the child's intrapsychic representation of the chief environmental effectors of temporal organization. Clinical examples demonstrate that the development of time sense can be unaffected, impeded, or incorporated into psychopathology.

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PubMed1979

Some observations and hypotheses about the psychoanalytic theory of adult development.

The developmental framework, when applied to adulthood, emphasizes the continuing evolution of the personality at five or fifty and 'focuses on the formation of psychic structure in process and underscores the continuity of normal and pathologic outcomes.' (COPER 9, 1974, p. 14). Many of the events we have discussed here are experiences unique to the adult and outside the realm of the child. Their uniqueness and developmental significance need to be better accounted for in psychoanalytic theory. Confrontation with each adult developmental task or crisis produces basic change in the life of each individual. To quote Bibring (1959): 'We find them as developmental phenomena at points of no return between one phase and the next when decisive changes deprive former central needs and modes of living of their significance forcing the acceptance of highly charged new goals and functions.' (p. 119). One purpose of this paper has been to demonstrate that such developmental turning points of no return are not limited to childhood but occur throughout the life cycle.

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PubMed1979

The development of time sense--from birth to object constancy.

This paper represents an attempt to delineate the developmental line of time sense from birth to object constancy, concentrating on those maturational and environmental factors which determine psychotemporal adaptation in infancy and early childhood. Observational data and clinical vignettes are used to support theoretical formulations. Time sense is understood as a subjective, dynamic emergence which evolves throughout the life cycle. Psychoanalysis has paid little attention to the theory of time, and much needs to be accomplished to formulate the developmental line of time for the remainder of the life cycle.

Adaptation, Psychological↗