ABSTRACT If we take the question: “How does divorce impact the child who grows into an adult?” and turn it on its head, we are looking at the patient from an entirely different point of view, namely: “What does the adult herself bring to the circumstance of a divorce that occurred in her childhood? How might that adult—in her childhood past with the anticipated immaturities in ego functioning—have assembled her perception of divorce at different stages of growth?” In this paper, I focus on how the analyst of such adult patients must consider, imaginatively, that the event of divorce, the memories of it, the growing sophistication of symbolic mentation, representations of self and others, were continuously transformed in the patient’s mind, time and time again, over the long course of the developmental passage. I share my thinking about the application of this developmental perspective to the clinical situation.

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离婚对儿童的影响：从成年时期的角度看

摘要如果我们提出以下问题：“离婚对成长为成年人的孩子有何影响？” 然后转过头来，我们从完全不同的角度看待患者，即：“成年人自己给童年时代的离婚带来了什么？那个成年人在她童年时期的自我功能未达到预期水平的过去，如何将她在不同成长阶段的离婚观念整合起来？” 在本文中，我着眼于这类成年患者的分析师如何想象性地考虑到，离婚事件，其记忆，象征性心理的日趋复杂，自我和他人的代表在患者的思想中不断发生变化。在开发过程的漫长过程中，一次又一次。