INFANT, CHILDREN PSYCHIATRY AND DEVELOPMENT – A STUDY GUIDE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS (English Edition)

A GOOD STUDY GUIDE FOR MEDICAL STUDENT. STUDY FOR YOUR BOARD AND FINAL EXAM
Sigmund Freud – rudimentary psychosexual framework, with a focus on the roots of adult onset psychopathology –i.e. anxiety, hysteria, conversion.
Karl Abraham – expanded on psychosexual, father of anal phase destructive-expulsive (anal-sadistic) and a mastering-retentive (anal-erotic)
Anna Freud – establish theory of Developmental Lines, which blended ego theory and object relations and environment; severe disruptions cause developmental arrest, neurosis
Melanie Klein – frustrating experiences in the first year of life, lead to the paranoid-schizoid position, which later life isolation and persecutory fears