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Mahler's Stages of Development
Margaret Mahler's stages of development
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Psychology
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08/26/2009

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birth to 4 weeks
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Autistic phase
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goal is to achieve homeostatic equilibrium with the environment; state of half asleep, half awake
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autistic phase
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4 weeks to 5 months
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symbiotic phase
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dim awareness of caretake, smiles socially
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symbiotic phase
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five to ten months
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differentiation phase
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develops more alert sensorium, comparative scanning
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differentiation phase
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ten to sixteen months
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practicing phase
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mother as a home base, separation anxiety
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practicing phase
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sixteen to twenty-four months
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rapproachment phase
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toddler
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rapproachment phase
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awareness of physical separateness, constantly brings object to mom, temper tantrum
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rapproachment phase
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what is the rapproachment crisis
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wanting to be soothed by mother but not wanting to accept her help
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what is comparative scanning
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compares what is mother to what is not mother
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