The Interpersonal World of the Infant

Daniel N. Stern, M.D., is Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Cornell Medical School. He is author of the acclaimed 'The Interpersonal World of the Infant', among other notable titles.

Preface -- Introduction to the Paperback Edition -- The Questions and Their Background -- Exploring the Infant's 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