List of figures and tables -- About the authors -- Preface to the fifth edition -- Introduction -- Tangled Webs: A user's guide -- 1 The Birth of a Human Being: What makes us who we are? -- 2 Below the Surface: Unconscious processes and psychodynamic insights -- 3 A Secure Base: The importance of attachment -- 4 Learning to Think: The developing ability to reason -- 5 Learning without Thinking: Ideas from behaviourism -- 6 Boy or Girl? The development of sex and gender -- 7 Who Am I Going to Be? Adolescence, identity and change -- 8 Acting like a Grown-up: Challenges of adulthood -- 9 Access to Adulthood: Growing up with disability -- 10 No One is an Island: Family systems and their life cycle -- 11 It Takes a Village: The wider context -- 12 Coming to a Conclusion: The experience of growing old -- 13 That Good Night: Death, dying and bereavement -- Appendix 1 - Tangled Webs: List of case studies -- Appendix 2 - Tangled Webs: Topics and case studies -- References -- Index.

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