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with Mahler's theory of infant behavior during the rapprochement period lies not with her very rich behavioral observations but with the failure to distin- ...
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Margaret Mahler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Schönberger Mahler (May 10 1897 – October 2 1985) was a Hungarian physician, who later became interested in psychiatry. She was a central figure on the world stage of psychoanalysis. Her mai...
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Mahler based her theory on systematic observation and careful documentation of the psychologically relevant behavior of infants and toddlers in interactions with their parents, providing a view of the development of the "objective self," a concept we put forward in an effort ... In the early rapprochement subphase,
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Mahler viewed the Rapprochement sub-phase of separation-individuation as "the mainspring of man's eternal struggle against both fusion and isolation" (Akhtar and Kramer 1997). ... Although later research in child development placed a greater emphasis on the innate capacities of newborns, Mahler's theory remains influential.
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In her theory Mahler speculates that after the first few weeks of infancy, in which the infant is either sleeping or barely conscious, the infant progresses first from a phase (Normal-Symbiotic Phase) in which it perceives itself as one with its mother within ... Mahler further divided Rapprochement into three sub-stages:
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At this historical moment we are trying to see if a rapprochement between the attachment theory of John Bowlby and the sepa-ration- individuation theory of Margaret Mahler is possible.
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Mahler sees the practicing and rapprochement phases as characterized by active separations, with ambivalence toward reunions with the caregiver as a threat to emerging autonomy.
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