The Injured Self

Preface -- Psychotherapy of a borderline child: Uri -- Early development and the developmental matrix -- Clinical manifestations of developmental deviations -- Emotional effects of developmental deviations: the injured self -- Effect of deviations on the progression of developmental stages -- Coping with maladaptive development -- Raising a child with idiosyncratic development: a mission barely possible -- Diagnosis of developmental deviations -- Developmentally informed therapy -- Psychotherapy of a girl with minimal ADHD: Giselle, the "Girl who Tamed Dinosaurs" -- Reconstruction in psychoanalysis: Ms. C., the "Slow Scientist" -- Psychoanalysis of a patient with borderline personality disorder and minimal encephalopathy: Mr. G., the "Great White Hunter" -- Shahar: art therapy of a boy with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Conduct Disorder -- Parent counselling and early intervention -- Mastery, aggression, and narcissism -- Cognition in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- Neurobiological perspective -- Conclusions