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Cognitive development, types of logic, and psychoanalytic theory

Cognitive development, types of logic, and psychoanalytic theory The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 49, No. 4, 1989 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, TYPES OF LOGIC, AND PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Leland van den Daele Cognitive developmental psychology and psychoanalysis may be viewed as two currents of the same historical stream with their beginnings in the late Victorian period. Five years prior to Freud's publication of the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), and roughly coincident to his writing of the Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895), James Mark Baldwin published his seminal Mental Development in the Child and the Race (1895). This work, along with his three-volume study Thought and Things (1906, 1908, 1911), provided the conceptual foundation of contemporary cognitive developmental theory. Cognitive developmental theory and psychoanalysis possess numerous commonalities. Both theories, from the onset, were strongly influenced by the theory of evolution. Both are developmental in conception and attempt to account for change in the mental structures that regulate behavior. Both inves- tigate the individual case, employ stage constructs, and are qualitative in orien- tation. Finally, both provide a program for a general theory of human behavior. P|AGETIAN AND KOHLBERGIAN THEORIES Contemporary cognitive developmental theory is epitomized in the work of the late Jean Piaget and the late Lawrence Kohlberg. Piaget http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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1989 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 49, No. 4, 1989 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, TYPES OF LOGIC, AND PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Leland van den Daele Cognitive developmental psychology and psychoanalysis may be viewed as two currents of the same historical stream with their beginnings in the late Victorian period. Five years prior to Freud's publication of the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), and roughly coincident to his writing of the Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895), James Mark Baldwin published his seminal Mental Development in the Child and the Race (1895). This work, along with his three-volume study Thought and Things (1906, 1908, 1911), provided the conceptual foundation of contemporary cognitive developmental theory. Cognitive developmental theory and psychoanalysis possess numerous commonalities. Both theories, from the onset, were strongly influenced by the theory of evolution. Both are developmental in conception and attempt to account for change in the mental structures that regulate behavior. Both inves- tigate the individual case, employ stage constructs, and are qualitative in orien- tation. Finally, both provide a program for a general theory of human behavior. P|AGETIAN AND KOHLBERGIAN THEORIES Contemporary cognitive developmental theory is epitomized in the work of the late Jean Piaget and the late Lawrence Kohlberg. Piaget

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1989

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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