The Earliest Relationship : Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment.
Title:
The Earliest Relationship : Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment.
Author:
Brazelton, T. Berry.
ISBN:
9781849401043
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgment -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART ONE Preqnancy : The Birth of Attachment -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Prehistory of Attachment -- Chapter 2. The Dawn of Attachment -- Chapter 3. Attachment in Fathers-to-Be -- PART TWO The Newborn As Participant -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. The Appearance of the Newborn and Its Impact -- Chapter 5. Reflexes in the Newborn -- Chapter 6. The Five Senses in the Newborn -- Chapter 7. States of Consciousness -- Chapter 8. Assessment of the Newborn -- Chapter 9. Individual Differences -- PART THREE Observing Early interaction -- Introduction -- Chapter 10. Interaction Studies: An Overview -- Chapter 11. Interaction in Context -- Chapter 12. Still-Face Studies -- Chapter 13. Four Stages in Early Interaction -- Chapter 14. Essentials of Early Interaction -- PART FOUR Imaginary Interactions -- Introduction -- Chapter 15. Giving Meaning to Infant Behavior -- Chapter 16. The Infant As Ghost -- Chapter 17. Reenacting Past Modes of Relationship -- Chapter 18. The Chlld As One Part of the Parent -- Chapter 19. Assessing Imaginary Interactions -- PART FIVE Understanding the Earliest ReIationship: A Complementary Approach to Infant Assessment -- Introduction -- Chapter 20. Cornbining Developmental Observations and Analytic Insight -- Chapter 21. Assessing Interaction -- Chapter 22. Lisa: "Angry Already" -- Chapter 23. Sebastian: "Reproachful Eyes" -- Chapter 24. Peter: 'Wild Man" -- Chapter 25. Clarissa: "No Matter What" -- Chapter 26. Bob: 'They Took Him Away" -- Chapter 27. Antonio : "A Bad Eye" -- Chapter 28. Sarah: "Malina" -- Chapter 29. Mary: 'Time Out" -- Chapter 30. Julian: 'The Tyrant' -- Chapter 31. Assessment As Intervention -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.
Abstract:
T. Berry Brazelton, world renowned pediatrician and expert on infant development, and Bertrand Cramer, pioneer in mother-infant psychotherapy, have combined their lifetimes of research and practice in this unique and important book. Never before has research on newborn behavior and parent-infant interaction been fully integrated with psychoanalytic insight into parents' emotions and fantasies.Brazelton and Cramer provide a vivid glimpse of the parents' daydreams and narcissistic wishes which grow into a desire for a child, and they show how these feelings develop into important attachments to the unborn infant during pregnancy. The "power and competence" of the newborn born then challenges parental fantasies, desires, wishes and expectations, creating the beginnings of the bond between parent and child. Using the latest research, the authors clarify all the ways the infant participates in the dawning relationship and the ingredients of very early communication and interaction. They then unveil the "imaginary interactions" which lend meaning and drama to each gesture and expression. We see the baby as Tyrant, as Savior, or as the reincarnation of lost relationships.In the final and most important part of the book, the authors put their unique combined perspective to work in nine striking case narratives drawn from their own practices. Everyone who cares for mothers and babies-pediatricians, developmental and clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, early childhood specialists, nurses and social workers-as well as interested parents, will find this book of immediate value.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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