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Interpersonal World of the Infant A View from Psychoanalysis and Development Psychology

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ISBN-10: 0465034039

ISBN-13: 9780465034031

Edition: 1985

Authors: Daniel N. Stern

List price: $42.00
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How do babies experience the world around them? How do they bring together the varied sights, sounds, and sensations to create a social environment? These questions have long intrigued students of human development, but until recently we have had to rely on adult memories to imagine what infants think and feel. Now, in this brilliant book, famed infant psychiatrist Daniel Stern brings together the exciting new research on infants and the insights of psychoanalysis to offer an original theory of how human beings create a sense of themselves and their relation to others.Unlike those who view early development as a gradual process of separation and individuation, Stern argues that infants…    
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/21/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Preface
Introduction to the Paper Back Edition
The Questions and Their Background
Exploring the Infant's Subjective Experience: a Central Role for the Sense of Self
Perspectives and Approaches to Infancy
The Four Senses of Self
The Sense of an Emergent Self
The Sense of a Core Self: I. Self Versus Other
The Sense of a Core Self: Ii. Self with Other
The Sense of a Subjective Self: I. Overview
The Sense of a Subjective Self: Ii. Affect Attunement
The Sense of a Verbal Self
Some Clinical Implications
The "Observed Infant" as Seen with a Clinical Eye
Some Implications for the Theories Behind Therapeutic Reconstructions
Implications for the Therapeutic Process of Reconstructing a Developmental Past
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index