The Educational Role of the Family

A Psychoanalytical Model

By (author) Donald Meltzer By (author) Martha Harris

Book cover: The Educational Role of the Family

Extent: 160 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2013)

ISBN: 9781780491400

5.08 x 7.8 inches

Price: $21.00

In stock

A unique psychoanalytic perspective on family patterns and cultural educability, originally commissioned by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programmes that would support families in their educational task.


This tract was commissioned from Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris in 1976 by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programmes that would support families in their educational task. It was included in Sincerity: Collected Papers of Donald Meltzer ed. A. Hahn (1994) but has never until now been published as an independent work in English, though it has been published in French, Spanish and Italian and has had extensive use in those countries by therapists, teachers, teacher-trainers and social workers.It is a unique work owing to its integration of a psychoanalytical theory of learning with an ecological conception of how the various systems involved in the educational process are interconnected, and as such is still of great present-day relevance, both to clinical and educational practitioners and to policy-makers.

Foreword Meg Harris Williams 1. The six dimensions of the mind Concept of metapsychology as six-dimensional The role of mental pain The six dimensions Figure: diagram of the model 2. A model of the individual-in-the-family-in-the-community The structural dimension The genetic dimension The dynamic dimension The geographic dimension The economic dimension The epistemological dimension 3. The community The benevolent community The maternal and paternal supportive communities The maternal and paternal parasitic communities The paranoid community 4. The basic assumption level of organization Basic assumption group: dependence Basic assumption group: fight-flight Basic assumption group: pairing 5. The family organization Roles and functions in family life The couple family The matriarchal family The patriarchal family The gang family The reversed family 6. The personality organization of the individual The adult state of mind The infantile states of mind The inverted or perverted state of mind 7. The uses of the model Methodological uses Diagnostic uses Specific use for the educational function Appendix I: The model, family and school Meg Harris Williams Appendix II: The school as counsellor Roland Harris References Index,

Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

1. The six dimensions of the mind
– Concept of metapsychology as six-dimensional
– The role of mental pain
– The six dimensions

Figure: diagram of the model

2. A model of the individual-in-the-family-in-the-community

– The structural dimension
– The genetic dimension
– The dynamic dimension
– The geographic dimension
– The economic dimension
– The epistemological dimension

3. The community

– The benevolent community
– The maternal and paternal supportive communities
– The maternal and paternal parasitic communities
– The paranoid community

4. The basic assumption level of organization 

– Basic assumption group: dependence
– Basic assumption group: fight-flight
– Basic assumption group: pairing

5. The family organization

– Roles and functions in family life
– The couple family
– The matriarchal family
– The patriarchal family
– The gang family
– The reversed family

6. The personality organization of the individual
– The adult state of mind
– The infantile states of mind
– The inverted or perverted state of mind

7. The uses of the model

– Methodological uses
– Diagnostic uses
– Specific use for the educational function

Appendix I: The model, family and school
Meg Harris Williams
Appendix II: The school as counsellor
Roland Harris

References
Index

 
  • By (author) Donald Meltzer
  • By (author) Martha Harris