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Child Development: Mahler's First Subphase - Differentiation

5 to 10 months

  • Process of hatching from autisic shell, i.e., developing more alert sensorium that reflects cognitive and neurological maturation

  • Beginning of camparative scanning, i.e., comparing what is and what is not mother

  • Characteristic anxiety: stranger anxiety, shich involves curiosity and fear (most prevalent around 8 months)

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