#x98;The#x9C; interpersonal world of the infant a view from psychoanalysis and developmental psychology

Noted psychiatrist Daniel Stern brings together exciting new research on infants and the insights of psychoanalysis to offer an original theory of how humans create a sense of themselves and others. "This dazzling book represents a truly original, perhaps revolutionary contribution to psychodynamic theory and practice".--Arnold Cooper, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Notes, Diagrams/Charts and Index. Challenging the traditional developmental sequence as well as the idea that issues of attachment, dependency, and trust are confined to infancy, the author integrates clinical and experimental science to support his revolutionizing vision of the social and emotional life of the youngest children, which has had spiraling implications for theory, research, and practice. This book attempts to create a dialogue between the infant as revealed by the experimental approach and as clinically reconstructed, in the service of resolving the contradiction between theory and reality. It describes the several ways that organization can form in the infant's mind. The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. ANYONE CONCERNED with human nature is drawn by curiosity to wonder about the subjective life of young infants.