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Some Questions Concerning States of Fragmentation: Unintegration, Under-Integration, Disintegration, and the Nature of Early Integrations
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Alvarez, Anne – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2006
The paper attempts some clarifications and differentiations concerning (1) Bick's classic distinction between states of helpless unintegration and states of defensive disintegration; (2) the difference between a state and a phase, and Bick's apparent challenge to some aspects of object relations thinking. The paper then lists some types of early…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Depression (Psychology), Developmental Stages