Interpersonal World of the Infant

The noted infant psychiatrist brings together exciting research on infants and the insights of psychoanalysis to offer an original theory of how human beings create a sense of themselves and their relation to others. Stern argues that infants differentiate themselves almost from birth and then progress through increasingly complex modes of relatedness. The book challenges the notion that certain tasks are confined to infancy: attachment, trust, and dependency are clinical issues through life, Stern maintains.