Intersubjective Minds

Jonathan Delafield-Butt's work examines the origins of conscious experience and the embodied and emotional foundations of psychological development, with attention to the subtle but significant motor disruption evident in autism spectrum disorder. He took his Ph.D. in Developmental Neurobiology at the University of Edinburgh before extending to Developmental Psychology advancing intersubjectivity theory in postdoctoral work at the Universities of Edinburgh and Copenhagen. He held scholarships at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh for science-philosophy bridgework in the nature of brain-mind relationship. Delafield-Butt trained pre-clinically in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Scottish Institute for Human Relations. He is a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, the International Society for Autism Research, and the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at Gothenburg. Vasudevi Reddy has been interested in the origins and early development of social cognition, for three decades now, and has been exploring the role of emotional engagement in social understanding. She focuses on everyday, ordinary engagements (such as teasing and joking and showing-off or feeling shy) which often tend to get ignored in mainstream theories. Her interest in engagement as the route to understanding has led her to questions about the nature and influence of culture on social understanding. Her book How Infants Know Minds published by Harvard University Press in 2008 argues for a second-person approach to knowing minds, a dialogical and emotion-based route to an old problem. She is Emeritus Professor of Developmental and Cultural Psychology at the University of Portsmouth in the UK

1: Andrew Packard: Foreword
2: Jonathan Delafield-Butt and Vasudevi Reddy: Agency and Affect in the Intentional Activity of the Infant: The life work of Colwyn Trevarthen
Babies and Others
3: Ben Bradley: The Evidence for Innate Intersubjectivity
4: Nadja Reissland: The psychology of prenatal research: is there a future in behavioural observational research?
5: Emese Nagy: Conversations with a 2-day old
6: Nadia Bruschweiler Stern: Attachment, Moment of Meeting and Intersubjectivity at birth
7: Alexandra Harrison and Ed Tronick: Trevarthen's Primary Intersubjectivity: An Appreciation and an Elaboration.
8: R Peter Hobson: Intersubjectivity: A unit of analysis for developmental psychology.
Mood, Music and Play
9: Maya Gratier: From intersubjectivity to atmosphere: insights from photography
10: Nigel Osborne: The psychobiologist who taught musicians how to sing.
11: Koichi Negayama and Shigeru Nakano: Play, Tickling and Companionship.
12: Benjaman Schogler & David Lee.: Elements of communication: A Dialogue
13: Stephen Malloch: Walking, affective ties words and play in an autistic child
14: Diana Gilchrist & Katie Overy: How does vocal portamento differ from vocal glissando? A Case Study
15: Shaun Gallagher: The music of intersubjective interaction: Distinguishing basic and higher-order empathies
Mirrors, Brains and Expressions
18: Lynne Murray and Pier Francesco Ferrari: The Functional Architecture of Mother-Infant Communication, and the Mirror Neuron System.
19: Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia: Mirroring Emotions and Vitality Forms
20: Jacqueline Nadel: Imitation as a synchroniser of minds and brains.
21: Bruce D. Perry: Neuroarcheology, Developmental Inflection Points and Colwyn's Voice: On Building a Neurodevelopmental Perspective into Clinical Practice
22: Mark Solms: Empathy as developmental achievement
23: Pauline Phemister: Philosophical Consideration of the Metaphysics of Intersubjectivity
Meanings, Symbols and Words
24: Vittorio Gallese: Neoteny, social practice and meaning-making
25: Bjorn Merker: Human vocal production learning: the nature and genesis of our watershed adaptation
26: Beatrice Beebe and Herbert Terrace: Primary Intersubjectivity and its Role in the Development of Language: An Essay in Honour of Colwyn Trevarthen
27: Helen Marwick: Intersubjective Conversations
28: Ulrike Ludke, Bansner, Beta, Lueck, Polzin, Schuett, Wu and Bodo Frank: The Dance of Emotions in Infant´s Semiolinguistic Development - Reflections on a Relational Research Methodology
Companions and Cultures of Care
29: J. Kevin Nugent, Lise Johnson, Susan Nicolson & Campbell Paul: The artistic imagination of Colwyn Trevarthen - the poetry of newborn behaviour and early relationships.
30: Hilary Kennedy and Raymond Simpson: How Colwyn's theoretical ideas, vitality and values have created and continue to sustain VIG development.
31: Suzanne Zeedyk: Companionship vs Care: Why models of infancy matter for the 21st century
32: Laurent Danon-Boileau and Maria Rhode: Walking, affective ties words and play in an autistic child.
33: Hisako Watanabe: Amae in infancy and the theory of intersubjectivity and companionship: Trevarthen's contribution to culturally-aligned clinical interventions for Japanese Families
34: Aline Wendy-Dunlop: Change the Child or Change the System? Reflections on transitions in early childhood.
35: Darcia Narvaez: Connected Cooperative Companionship Grounds Children's Dance into Morality
36: Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram: What do young children have to say? Recognising their wisdom, agency and need for companionship in a time of crisis.
CODA
37: Colwyn Trevarthen: Universal Harmony