2019
Personality Organization and Maternal Addiction: A Structural-Developmental Psychodynamic Contribution
Alvarez-Monjaras M, Rutherford H, Mayes L. Personality Organization and Maternal Addiction: A Structural-Developmental Psychodynamic Contribution. Psychoanalytic Psychology 2019, 36: 321-327. DOI: 10.1037/pap0000274.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPersonality developmentTwo-polarities modelNormal crisisMaternal addictionChallenges of parenthoodPoor developmental outcomesSubstance use disordersNeural changesObject relationsDevelopmental outcomesPersonality organizationPsychodynamic contributionsUse disordersReview of evidenceAddictionMultiple perspectivesParenthoodPersonalityNegative impactBlattMotherhoodParentsChildrenDisordersAttention
1999
Clocks, Engines, and Quarks—Love, Dreams, and Genes
Mayes L. Clocks, Engines, and Quarks—Love, Dreams, and Genes. The Psychoanalytic Study Of The Child 1999, 54: 169-192. PMID: 10748632, DOI: 10.1080/00797308.1999.11822500.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPsychological developmentDevelopmental progressionFive-year-old childrenPsychological growthPsychological changesConsiderable individual variabilityImplicit assumptionObject relationsChildhood psychopathologyInternal worldCharacter structureIndividual fantasiesIndividual variabilityPredictable wayModel of developmentChildrenPsychopathologyForward developmentCentral questionAdulthoodPsychoanalysisClinical material