Research on mother-infant interaction in the first year of life can contribute to
conceptualizing the development of self-and object representations and the emerging …

T here is a long-standing tradition in psychoanalysis linking child development and the
organization of psychic structure. Recent research on mother-infant interaction in the first six …

Abstract The work of John Bowlby and his associates on the development of the infant's
attachment to his or her parents in the second half of the first year reflects the fruitfulness of …

Using research on the purely social face‐to‐face exchange, we examine patterns of mother—
infant interaction and their relevance for the presymbolic origins of self and object …

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the significance of parental figures in early human
development. Interactions with the primary maternal object are thought to determine the …

My main thesis is that the structures determined by internalized object relations constitute a
crucial determinant of ego integration and an abnormal development of internalized object …

This study investigated the influence of fathers on early triadic family interactions including
transgenerational, representational, and interactional dimensions. A prospective …

What we report today is a direct outgrowth of Ernst Kris's interest and thinking in connection
with the longitudinal study in child development which he directed at the Yale University …

This paper presents a summary of the Anna Freud Centre-University College London,
Parent-Child Project. Its most important finding was that the security of the infants' …

The impetus for this paper is the advances in our understanding of infants and the nature of
their knowledge of the world. I attempt to integrate recently available knowledge as it applies …