The role of separation in development--Maternal loss in nonhuman primates:implications for human development--Psychoanalytic views of separation in infancy and early childhood--Separation in infancy and early childhood:contributions of attachment theory and psychoanalysis--Development of the sense of separateness and autonomy during middle childhood and adolescence--Separation,interdependence,and social relations across the second half of life--Separation and loss in major life transitions--From family to classroom:variations in adjustment to nursery school--Leaving home: a family transition--Effects of work-related separations on children and families--Moving to a new culture:cultural identity,loss,and mourning--Impact of marital dissolution on adults and children:the significance of loss and continuity--Death of a parent or sibling during childhood--Separation,loss and psychopathology:implications for treatment--Separation,depression,and object loss:implications for narcissism and object relations--Increments of separation in the consolidation of the self--Transitional phenomena and psychological separateness in schizophrenic,borderline,and bulimic patients--The process of psychotherapy:separation and the complex interplay among empathy,insinght and internalization--Contradictory values in the study of separation and attachment :implications for depression and schizophrenia--

1. Child development
2. Families
3. Paren-Child relations
4. Psychoanalytic theory