About margaret mahler biography of the psychoanalyst
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Margaret Mahler
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Training Location(s):
AB, University of Jena ()
Primary Affiliation(s):
Masters Children's Center
Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute
Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute
Career Focus:
Psychoanalysis; child development; mother-infant bonds; separation-individuation theory; psychiatry.
Biography
Margaret Schonberger (later Margaret Mahler) had an unusual relationship with her parents which had an extraordinary impact on her future career. As a child Schonberger’s father, a successful physician, often treated her as if she were a son and encouraged her scientific inquiries. Her mother was an unhappy homemaker and did not have a close relationship with her daughter. When Schonberger’s little sister Suzanne was born, however, her mother developed a close b
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Review of Margaret Mahler: A biography of the psychoanalyst
Reviews the book, Margaret Mahler: A biography of the psychoanalyst by Alma Halbert Bond (see record ). This psychobiography tells an evocative tale of the late Margaret Mahler's embattled, difficult, yet highly productive life. Mahler was a developmental researcher and a psychoanalyst. Her delineation of the separation-individuation process dramatically shifted psychoanalytic developmental theory, altering psychoanalytic understanding of pathogenesis and treatment. Her understanding of the mother-child matrix, as well as her approach to studying it, directly affected psychoanalytic child therapy as well, focusing clinical attention on the moment-by-moment vicissitudes of early development and also upon the possibility of altering its course through therapeutic intervention in the mother-child relationship. The book suffers from a number of problems: the narrative is sloppy, marred by numerous jarring, obvious, even sur
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Margaret Mahler
Austrian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Margaret Schönberger Mahler (May 10, in Ödenburg, Austria-Hungary; October 2, in New York) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist,[1]psychoanalyst, and pediatrician. She did pioneering work in the field of infant and young child research. On the grund of empirical studies, she developed a development model that became particularly influential in psychoanalysis and Object relations theory. Mahler developed the separation–individuation theory of child development.
Biography
[edit]Born Margaret Schönberger on May 10, , into a Jewish family in Ödenburg, a small town near Vienna to Gustav Schönberger, an Austrian physician and president of the Jewish community, one of the notables of Ödenburg, and Eugenia Schönberger, née Wiener.[2][1] She and a younger sister had a difficult childhood as a result of their parents' troubled marriage. Margaret's father, however, encouraged her t