You and Your Baby: A Baby's Emotional Life

ISBN-13: 9781855753631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 160 str.

Frances Thomson Salo

Opis

This volume was written to help parents understand what their baby is likely to be feeling in the first year. It describes how the baby's sense of self develops, with intentionality, empathy, and recognition of the self. Babies want to be enthusiastically enjoyed and come into the world with a functioning mind, primed to communicate and learn quickly. These ideas are of fundamental importance for understanding babies. The main developmental achievements of the first year are considered, such as coping with separations and how thinking, self-esteem, and concern for others develop.
This book is important because it synthesises insights from working therapeutically with babies, children, and adults with those from infant research and infant observation and is illustrated with examples. It is written by a clinician who has had nearly two decades of specializing in work with distressed babies and their families. It focuses on the baby's subjective experience of the world, viewing the baby as a subject in his or her own right, and in this way makes a unique contribution in the area of understanding the early non-verbal experience of the tiny infant.

Spis treści

1 setting the scene, 1 a baby's developing self 2 the developing self in the first two months, 3 a baby's intentional self, 4 a baby's self-recognition, 5 a baby's empathie self, II the tasks facing the developing self 6 relating to fathers, siblings, and other people, 7 attachment and separation, 8 thinking, 9 feeling good and feeling the best: healthy narcissism and omnipotence, 10 concern and oedipal wishes, I I I the self in difficulty, 11 physical and emotional difficulties, afterword.

O autorze

Frances Thomson Salo trained with the British Society as a child and adult psychoanalyst, is a Training analyst and past President of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee of Women in Psychoanalysis, an editorial board member of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis', a consultant infant mental health clinician at the Royal Women's Hospital and child psychotherapist at the Royal Children's Hospital, an Honorary Fellow of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, an Associate Professor on the faculty of the University of Melbourne Graduate Diploma for Infant and Parent Mental Health, and has published on child and infant-parent psychotherapy.