Thousand Days of Wonder : A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind

by Fernyhough, Charles (Author)

• ISBN13: 9781583333471
• ISBN10: 1583333479
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-02
• Publisher: Avery

Summary

In this beautifully written account of his daughter's first three years, psychologist and novelist Fernyhough combines his vivid observations with a synthesis of developmental theory, recreating what that time--lost to the memory of adults--is like from a child's perspective.

Author Biography

CHARLES FERNYHOUGH studied developmental psychology at Cambridge University and is now a part-time lecturer in psychology at Durham University. He lives in County Durham, England, with his wife and two children. He is the author of the novel The Auctioneer and more than thirty research articles.

Table of Contents

It's like this Remembering a Beginning	p. 1
Preconceptions Life Before Birth	p. 9
Blooming, Buzzing First Impressions of the Newborn	p. 22
Those driven things Coming to Know the People Who Shared Her World	p. 35
Who's Playing That Piano? Acting, Reacting, and Gaining Control	p. 47
Closing the Circle Object Lessons	p. 56
Where's The Bear? A Word for Everything	p. 68
UM... Language and Thought	p. 87
All by Myself Emerging from the Mirror	p. 106
The Shining Thread A Self That Endures	p. 122
Believe Me Telling the Truth About Other Minds	p. 145
It's About a Little Mouse The Story of Story	p. 156
The Young Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space	p. 171
Lightning Ridge is Falling Down A Portrait of the Artist	p. 189
If you Go to the Sea of Life, Be Sure to Wear Your Armbands Love and Loss	p. 204
Where it Takes you Casting into the Future	p. 224
Acknowledgments	p. 233
Notes	p. 237
Index	p. 251
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