In this review, I explore theoretical and empirical approaches to the development of
gender/sex and sexual orientation (SO). Leaving behind the nature versus nurture …

The paper traces the relationship between attachment processes and the development of
the capacity to envision mental states in self and others. We suggest that the ability to …

Since the rise of cognitive psychology in the early 1970s,“social cognition” has become the
dominant concept in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to denote the processes …

This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and
psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to integrate scientific knowledge of …

This book demonstrates that the relationship between attachment theory and
psychoanalysis is more complex than adherents of either community generally recognize. It …

A microanalysis of 4-month mother-infant face-to-face communication revealed a fine-
grained specification of communication processes that predicted 12-month insecure …

This book, first published in the year of the author's death, expresses Mitchell's vision for the
theory of relational psychoanalysis, and provides his most-developed expression of its …

Infant Research and Adult Treatment is the first synoptic rendering of Beatrice Beebe's and
Frank Lachmann's impressive body of work. Therapists unfamiliar with current research …

Although theories of early social development emphasize the advantage of mother-infant
rhythmic coupling and bidirectional coordination, empirical demonstrations remain sparse …