A Girl’s Childhood: Psychological Development, Social Change, and The Yale Child Study Center
Linda C. Mayes and Stephen Lassonde
Abstract
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Study Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children's early development. The group's members composed detailed narratives about their work with the study's children, interviewed families regularly and visited them in their homes, and over the course of a decade met monthly for discussion. This book considers the significance of the Child Study Center's landmark study from various perspectives, focusing particularly on one c ... More
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Study Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children's early development. The group's members composed detailed narratives about their work with the study's children, interviewed families regularly and visited them in their homes, and over the course of a decade met monthly for discussion. This book considers the significance of the Child Study Center's landmark study from various perspectives, focusing particularly on one child's unfolding sense of herself, her gender, and her relationships.
Keywords:
children,
Yale Child Study Center,
psychoanalytic theory,
early development,
gender,
relationships
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300117592 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2015 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300117592.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Linda C. Mayes, editor
Yale Child Study Center
Stephen Lassonde, editor
Harvard University
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