The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment

by T. Berry Brazelton, Bertrand G. Cramer

Overview

Never before has research on newborn behavior and parent-infant interaction been fully integrated with psychoanalytic insight into parents' emotions and fantasies. This book 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 importan

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367327736
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/29/2019
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Pregnancy: The Birth of Attachment — Introduction — The Prehistory of Attachment — The Dawn of Attachment — Attachment in Fathers-to-Be — The Newborn as Participant — Introduction — The Appearance of the Newborn and Its Impact — Reflexes in the Newborn — The Five Senses in the Newborn — States of Consciousness — Assessment of the Newborn — Individual Differences — Observing Early Interaction — Introduction — Interaction Studies: An Overview — Interaction in Context — Still-Face Studies — Four Stages in Early Interaction — Essentials of Early Interaction — Imaginary Interactions — Introduction — Giving Meaning to Infant Behavior — The Infant As Ghost — Reenacting Past Modes of Relationship — The Child As One Part of the Parent — Assessing Imaginary Interactions — Understanding the Earliest Relationship: A Complementary Approach to Infant Assessment — Introduction — Combining Developmental Observations and Analytic Insight — Assessing Interaction — Lisa: "Angry Already" — Sebastian: "Reproachful Eyes" — Peter: "Wild Man" — Clarissa: "No Matter What" — Bob: "They Took Him Away" — Antonio: "A Bad Eye" — Sarah: "Malina" — Mary: "Time Out" — Julian: "The Tyrant" — Assessment As Intervention