· 2019
The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology
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- 2019year
Short summary
Daniel N. Stern proposes that infants possess four distinct senses of self—emergent, core, subjective, and verbal—which develop interpersonally and are crucial for understanding infant experience and clinical implications.
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Key points
- Infants develop four distinct senses of self: emergent, core, subjective, and verbal.
- These senses of self are fundamentally interpersonal, shaped by interactions with caregivers.
- The concept of 'affect attunement' is central to the development of the subjective self.
- Understanding these senses has direct clinical implications for psychoanalytic therapy and reconstructing developmental history.
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Abstract
The Questions And Their Background Exploring the Infants Subjective Experience: A Central Role for the Sense of Self Perspectives and Approaches to Infancy The Four Senses Of Self The Sense of an Emergent Self The Sense of a Core Self: I, Self versus Other The Sense of a Core Self II, Self with Other The Sense of a Subjective Self: I, Overview The Sense of a Subjective Self: II, Affect Attunement The Sense of a Verbal Self Some Clinical Implications The Observed Infant as Seen with a Clinical Eye Some Implications for the Theories Behind Therapeutic Reconstructions Implications for the Therapeutic Process of Reconstructing a Developmental Past Epilogue.
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