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Lives across Time/Growing up

Szajnberg, Nathan, Massie, Henry

2008,2018

Overview

LIVES ACROSS TIME describes a 30-year study of 76 individuals from birth to adulthood. The book narrates their varied life paths and the influence of their families and communities on their development. We place the results into the categories of those whose lives are fairly continuous from early childhood, and those whose lives are not; those whose lives exceeded expectations in the face of early troubled parenting, and those who did not fulfill the promise of initially sound parenting and healthy emotional growth – typically because of subsequent trauma – and developed psychiatric syndromes. While life histories may fall into configurations with shared characteristics, by listening psychoanalytically we found something basic in the stories that parents and their now adult children tell about themselves: the individual story is humanizing and compelling. Letting the subjects speak at length brought them alive for us as researchers. There was a sense of awe in watching the children’s inner worlds evolve over time. By narrating the participants’ own voices we hope to share the wonder we experienced so the reader’s journey also becomes one of discovery.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Case studies / Developmental psychology / Psychoanalysis / United States
• ISBN: 1855755173, 9781855755178