A selection of texts on child development all available for on-line ordering. Just click on a flag! |
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| Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain
by Sue Gerhardt
Paperback 246 pages 
| Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with
lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. She shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional well being, and goes on to look at specific early 'pathways' that can affect the way we respond to stress and lead to conditions such as anorexia, addiction, and anti-social behaviour.
Why Love Matters is a lively and very accessible interpretation of the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology,
psychoanalysis and biochemistry. It will be invaluable to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, mental health professionals, parents and all those concerned with the central importance of brain development in relation to many later adult difficulties. |
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| Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences
by Daniel N. Stern
Paperback, 176 pages
| Every new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on infant
development and psychiatry brings us closer than ever before to penetrating a child’s consciousness. In alternating sections of evocative prose, representing the baby’s own voice, and explanatory text, Daniel Stern draws on the latest research findings to recreate the baby’s world. |
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| The First Relationship: Infant and Mother
by Daniel N. Stern
Hardcover 176 pages
| A noted authority on early development, Daniel Stern's pioneering video-based research into
the intimate complexities of mother-infant interaction has had an enormous impact on psychotherapy and developmental psychology. Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, it offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his subsequent books. |
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| Home Is Where We Start From
by DW Winnicott
Paperback 288 pages
| It's unusual for find a psychotherapist with a Freudian approach arguing that men's envy of women may be as
strong as women's phallic envy. But Winnicott, who died in 1971, was no ordinary therapist. An original, idiosyncratic, occasionally crotchety writer and lecturer, the British psychoanalyst, we learn here, speculated freely and sometimes prophetically on teenage conflicts and suicide, people who erect a "false self," birth control, feminism, the Berlin wall and the family's changing role. In these essays and talks, he views adolescence as a life-or-death struggle for maturity,
discusses the positive value of depression as a means of coping, explores creative ways to teach mathematics, and argues that men are risk-takers because they are denied the experience of childbirth. The essays are marked by earnestness, colloquial informality and shrewd insights into personal and social ills that afflict us today. |
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| Becoming Attached: First Relationships
by Robert Karen
Paperback 512 pages
| The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern
psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own children - seemingly against our will - the very behaviours we most disliked about our parents? In Becoming Attached, psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental and fascinating
questions of emotional life. |
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See also: Theory Books | Counselling in Action Series | Beyond Empathy | Bestsellers for Professionals |
