The Earliest Relationship

by Brazelton, T. Berry; Cramer, Bertrand G.

• ISBN13: 9780201106398
• ISBN10: 0201106396
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-01-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books

Summary

Examines parents' psychological images of their newborns during the first stages after birth, uniting the latest knowledge about infants and the tools of psychoanalysis

Author Biography

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital Boston, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development at Brown University. He is a famed advocate for children, and his many other internationally acclaimed books for parents include To Listen to a Child, Infants and Mothers, and, with Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., The Irreducible Needs of Children. Bertrand G. Cramer, M.D., is professor of psychiatry at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 2
The Prehistory of Attachment	p. 5
The Dawn of Attachment	p. 17
Attachment in Fathers-To-Be	p. 33
The Newborn as Participant	p. 42
Introduction	p. 44
The Appearance of the Newborn and Its Impact	p. 47
Reflexes in the Newborn	p. 49
The Five Senses in the Newborn	p. 53
States of Consciousness	p. 63
Assessment of the Newborn	p. 69
Individual Differences	p. 75
Observing Early Interaction	p. 82
Introduction	p. 84
Interaction Studies: An Overview	p. 87
Interaction in Context	p. 97
Still-Face Studies	p. 107
Four Stages in Early Interaction	p. 113
Essentials of Early Interaction	p. 121
Imaginary Interactions	p. 128
Introduction	p. 130
Giving Meaning to Infant Behavior	p. 133
The Infant as Ghost	p. 139
Reenacting Past Modes of Relationship	p. 151
The Child as One Part of the Parent	p. 157
Assessing Imaginary Interactions	p. 163
Introduction	p. 166
Combining Developmental Observations and Analytic Insight	p. 169
Assessing Interaction	p. 171
Lisa: "Angry Already"	p. 175
Sebastian: "Reproachful Eyes"	p. 185
Peter: "Wild Man"	p. 189
Clarissa: "No Matter What"	p. 197
Bob: "They Took Him Away"	p. 205
Antonio: "A Bad Eye"	p. 209
Sarah: "Malina"	p. 215
Mary: "Time Out"	p. 221
Julian: "The Tyrant"	p. 225
Assessment as Intervention	p. 229
References	p. 232
Index	p. 245
About the a U T H O R S	p. 252
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