"A Merloyd Lawrence book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-350) and index

Introduction: Questioning a Historical Dichotomy -- Pt. 1. The Processes That Build the Mind. 1. The Emotional Architecture of the Mind. 2. The Deepest Foundations: Security and Engagement. 3. From Intent to Dialogue. 4. Creating an Internal World. 5. The Origins of Consciousness, Morality, and Intelligence. 6. Fitting Nurture to Nature: The Lock and the Key -- Pt. 2. The Endangered Mind. 7. The Danger and the Promise. 8. Mental Health: A Developmental View. 9. Pep Pills, Pep Talks, and Real Therapeutic Experiences. 10. The Emotional Foundations of Learning. 11. Conflict Resolution and the Levels of the Mind. 12. Marriage. 13. Violence and Deprivation. 14. Toward a Reflective Society. 15. Our Human Imperative

In The Growth of the Mind Stanley Greenspan offers a profoundly new view of the origins of our minds' highest capacities. Contrary to traditional notions, he finds that intelligence per se does not arise from cognitive stimulation, but along with morality, empathy, and self-reflection has a common foundation in specific early emotional experiences. Distilled from two decades of research and practice in human development and adult and child psychiatry, this compelling book reveals the six fundamental levels that form the architecture of our minds. The growth of these levels, four of which are deeper even than the unconscious, depends on a series of critical but subtle emotional transactions between an infant and a devoted caregiver. In mapping these mind-building interactions, Dr. Greenspan clearly formulates the elusive building blocks of creative and analytic thinking, and the sense of self. He thus provides an exciting missing link between recent discoveries in neuroscience and the qualities that make us most fully human

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