title: A hundred years of latency: from Freudian psychosexual theory to dynamic systems nonlinear development in middle childhood.
abstract: A focus on the latency phase is used to illustrate how theory and developmental research have influenced our psychoanalytic views of development over the past hundred years. Beginning with Freud's psychosexual theory and his conception of latency, an historical overview of the major psychoanalytic contributions bearing on this developmental period over the past century is presented. Recent longitudinal research in latency supports a nonlinear dynamic systems approach to development. This approach obliges us to reconsider our linear theories and how we think about and work with our patients.
authors.forename: Rona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007837:Latency Period, Psychological; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
keywords: child analysis; child development; history of latency development; middle childhood psychology; nonlinear dynamic systems theory