The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children
Ed Tronick
Praise for The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children:
“This book is expansive, imaginative, and a model for the integration of elegant empirical investigation with theoretical and clinical acuity. Ed Tronick has long been one of the foremost infant researchers, exquisitely attuned to the social origins of human selfhood and the requirements of creating compelling designs and concepts to demonstrate this: Where would we be without his conceptualization of Mutual Regulation or his application of the Still-Face Paradism? He has more recently extended his vision to observe teh origins of consciousness ine arly parent-infant dyads and has offered new understandings of the development of minds, psychopathology, and transformations in psychotherapy. This is an invaluable volume, full of core ideas and breakthroughs, and reflecting innovation and integration at every turn. Both beginners and experienced theorists and therapists of all persuasions will see things anew as they read it.” —Stephen Seligman, D.M.H., Co-editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues: International Journal of Relational Perspectives
“Ed Tronick is a giant among infant psychologists—his research a beacon for their work. This masterly, long-awaited book brings his contributions together into a landmark monograph that firmly establishes him as a great leader in this field. His Mutual Regulation Model provides a brilliantly clear and coherent integration of a vast terrain of work, reviewed to perfection in this book. . . . [S]tudents and teachers, masters and novices, must read and reread this book, which will be the point of reference against which all future contributions to psychoanalytic infant studies will be judged for decades to come.”
—Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., FBA, Chief Executive, The Anna Freud Centre
Overview – Topics Included
Internationally recognized as one of the premier researchers on child development, Ed Tronick has held notable teaching positions and conducted vital research for nearly 30 years. Over the course of his esteemed career, he has received funding for hundreds of key studies in the US and abroad on normal and abnormal infant and child development—including his Mutual Regulation Model and Still-Face Paradigm, which revolutionized our understanding of infants’ emotional capacities and coping—all of which led to critical contributions in the field. Much of his work serves as the benchmark for how mental health clinicians think about biopsychosocial states of consciousness, the process of meaning making, and how and why we engage with others in the world.
Now, for the first time, Tronick has gathered together his most influential writings in a single, essential volume. Organized into five parts—(I) Neurobehavior, (II) Culture, (III) Infant Social-Emotional Interaction, (IV) Perturbations: Natural and Experimental, and (V) Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness and Meaning Making—this book represents his major ideas and studies regarding infant-adult interactions, developmental processes, and mutual regulation, carefully addressing such questions as: • What is a state of consciousness? • What are the developing infant’s capacities for neurobehavioral self-organization? • How are early infant-adult interactions organized? • How can we understand the nature of normal versus abnormal development? • How do self and mutual regulation relate to developmental processes? • Is meaning making purely a function of the brain, or is it in our bodies as well?
As a bonus, the book includes a DVD-ROM, with video clips of Tronick’s Still-Face Paradigm, an invaluable teaching aid.
About the Author–
Ed Tronick is program director of the Child Development Unit at Children’s Hospital, associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and author of more than one hundred articles on infant and child development. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
ISBN 10: 0-393-70517-X
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-70517-1
2007 / 604 pages / Hardcover with DVD
