Stephen Seligman is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; and Clinical Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He is also co-editor of the American Psychiatric Press' Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice.

What to Expect from This Book; Introduction: Why Developmental Psychoanalysis? Part I: How We Got Here: A Roadmap to Psychoanalytic Theories of Childhood and Development 1. Childhood Has Meaning of Its Own: Freud and the Invention of Psychoanalysis 2. Theory I: Foreshadowings: Core Themes and Controversies in the Early Freudian Theories 3. The Baby at the Crossroads: The Structural Model, Ego Psychology, and Object Relations Theories 4. Theory II: What Is a "Robust Developmental Perspective?" 5. The Postwar Diversification and Pluralization of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Interdisciplinary Expansion, the Widening Clinical Scope and the New Developmentalism Part II: The Relational Baby: Intersubjectivity and Infant Development 6. Infancy Research: Toward a Relational-Developmental Psychoanalysis 7. Clinical Implications of Infancy Research: Affect, Interaction and Non-Verbal Meaning in the Dyadic Field 8. Theory III: The Relational Baby: Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique 9. Continuities from Infancy to Adulthood: The Baby is Out of the Bathwater 10. Theory IV: The Move to the Maternal: Gender, Sexualities, and the Oedipus Complex in Light of Intersubjective Developmental Research Part III: Attachment and Recognition in Clinical Process: Reflection, Regulation and Emotional Security 11. Intersubjectivity Today: The Orientation and Concept 12. Attachment Theory and Research in Context: Clinical Implications 13. Recognition and Mentalization in Infancy and Psychotherapy: Convergences of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis 14. Mentalization and Metaphor, Acknowledgement and Grief: Forms of Transformation in the Reflective Space 15. Infant-Parent Interactions, Phantasies, and an "Internal Two-Person Psychology": Projective Identification and the Intergenerational Transmission of Early Trauma in Kleinian Theory and Intersubjective Infant Research Part IV: Vitality, Activity, and Communication in Development and Psychotherapy 16. Coming to Life in Time: Temporality, Early Deprivation, and the Sense of a Lively Future 17. Forms of Vitality and Other Integrations: Daniel Stern's Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Core Part V: Awareness, Confusion and Uncertainty: Nonlinear Dynamics in Everyday Practice 18. Feeling Puzzled While Paying Attention: The Analytic Mindset as an Agent of Therapeutic Change 19. Dynamic Systems Theories as a Basic Framework for Psychoanalysis: Change Processes in Development and Therapeutic Action 20. Searching for Core Principles: Louis Sander's Synthesis of Biological, Psychological, and Relational Factors and Contemporary Developmental Psychodynamics