Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and the Emerging Person: A Selection of Papers from the Life Work of Louis Sander

ISBN-13: 9781138005938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 296 str.

Louis Sander;Gherardo Amadei;Ilaria Bianchi

Opis

This collection is concerned with the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in terms of basic principles that govern the living system as an ongoing creative process.

Spis treści

Part I: Issues in Early Mother-Child Interaction. Adaptive Relationships in Early Mother-Child Interaction. The Longitudinal Course of Early Mother-Child Interaction: Cross-case Comparison in a Sample of Mother-Child Pairs. Infant and Caretaking Environment: Investigation and Conceptualization of Adaptive Behavior in a System of Increasing Complexity. Part II: Investigation of the Infant and its Caregiving Environment as a Biological System. Investigation of Interactive Regulation in Three Infant-caretaking Systems. The Event-structure of Regulation in the Neonate-caregiver System as a Biological Background for Early Organization of Psychic Structure. Paradox and Resolution: From the Beginning. Recognition Process: Context and Experience of Being Known. Part III: Reflections on Developmental Process: Wholeness, Specificity, and the Organization of Conscious Experiencing. Awareness of Inner Experience: A System Perspective on Self-Regulatory Process in Early Development. Thinking Differently: Principles of Process in Living Systems and the Specificity of Being Known. Development as a Creative Process.

O autorze

Louis Sander, M.D., received his medical degree at the University of California Medical School, followed by three years in the USAAF Medical Corp (1943-46), then advancing from resident in psychiatry to Professor of Psychiatry and psychoanalyst and Boston University School of Medicine (1947-68), completing his professional career as Senior Scholar and Professor of Psychiatry at University of Colorado Medical School (1979-87). His early developmental research contributions stemmed from data collected in the 25 year Boston Longitudinal Study in Early Development.