vii Preface Each year as I gave a lecture series on child and adult development to the adult and child psychiatric residents at the University of California at San Diego, someone inevitably would ask, "Is there a book that I could understand that has all of this information in it?"
1: A Historical Overview and General Principles of Child Development.- 2: The Diagnostic Process with Children.- 3: The Oral Phase (Ages 0–1).- 4: The Anal Phase (Ages 1–3).- 5: The Oedipal Phase (Ages 3–6).- 6: Latency (Ages 6–11).- 7: Adolescence (Ages 12–20).- 8: A Historical Overview and General Principles of Adult Development.- 9: The Adult Developmental Diagnostic Process.- 10: Young Adulthood (Ages 20–40).- 11: Middle Adulthood (Ages 40–60).- 12: Late and Late Late Adulthood (Age 60 and beyond).- References.
'The author shares his conceptual grasp of human development in a lucid manner that enables the reader, practitioner, theoretician, and trainee to be currently knowledgeable and prepared to acquire and integrate newer knowledge as it is harvested.' Albert J. Solnit, M.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Yale University