Download or read book The Essential Other written by Robert M. Galatzer-levy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to chart out human development over the lifespan from a self-psychology perspective. Galatzer-Levy and Cohler examine how across the course of life--infancy, toddlerhood, early childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, senescence--humans primarily structure their experience by creating meaning from their relations with other people.