Parent-Infant Interaction -- Contents -- Introduction -- Mothers' and infants' roles: distinguishing the questions to be asked -- Discussion -- Prepartum and postpartum regulation of maternal behaviour in the rat -- Discussion -- Qualities of mother-infant relationships in monkeys -- Discussion -- Does human maternal behaviour after delivery show a characteristic pattern? -- Discussion -- Evidence for a sensitive period in the human mother -- Discussion -- Olfaction in the development of social preferences in the human neonate -- Discussion -- Breathing and sucking during feeding in the newborn -- Discussion -- Early mother-infant reciprocity -- Discussion -- Consistency and change in styles of mothering -- Discussion -- How a rejecting baby may affect mother-infant synchrony -- Discussion -- A congenital contribution to emotional response in early infancy and the preschool period -- Discussion -- Mother-infant separation: some delayed consequences -- Discussion -- Cognitive aspects of preverbal social interactions between human infants and adults -- Discussion -- Parents of babies of very low birth-weight long-term follow-up -- Discussion -- Speculations on the relevance of developmental psychology to paediatrics -- Discussion -- General Discussion: Neonatal care units -- Summing Up -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.