Irene Fast The University of Michigan, Robert E. Erard Orchard Hills Psychiatric Center, Carol J. Fitzpatrick Case Western Reserve University, Anne E. Thompson Harvard Graduate Linda Young School of Education, The University of Michigan

"The writing throughout is careful, thoughtful, and analytic. The chapters critique contemporary conceptions and offer solutions from event theory."—Contemporary Psychology

• Introduction, Irene Fast; Chapter 1 Infantile Narcissism and the Active Infant, Irene Fast; Chapter 2 Primary Process Cognition, Irene Fast; Chapter 3 The Development and Loss of Self Boundaries, Irene Fast; Chapter 4 A Framework for a Theory of Object Relations, Irene Fast; Chapter 5 Children’s Development out of Event-Bound Conceptions of Their Emotion, Carol J. Fitzpatrick; Chapter 6 Concrete Thinking and the Categorical Attitude, Robert E. Erard; Chapter 7 Omnipotence and Primary Creativity in Rorschach Responses, Linda Young, Irene Fast; Chapter 8 The Nature of Emotion and Its Development, Anne E. Thompson;