You and Your Baby

<p>This volume is to help parents understand what their baby is likely to be feeling in the first year. It describes how the baby's sense of self develops, with intentionality, empathy and recognition of the self. It focuses on the baby's subjective experience of the world, viewing the baby as a subject in his or her own right, and in this way makes a unique contribution in the area of understanding the early non-verbal experiences of infants. Each of the authors featured has published papers and books for the academic and clinical communities; the present volumes, however, are specifically aimed at parents. The intent is not to convince but to inform the reader. Rather than offering solutions, we are describing, explaining and discussing the problems that parents meet while bringing up their children, from infancy through to adulthood.</p> <p>1 setting the scene, <b>1 a baby's developing self </b>2 the developing self in the first two months, 3 a baby's intentional self, 4 a baby's self-recognition, 5 a baby's empathie self, <b>II the tasks facing the developing self </b>6 relating to fathers, siblings, and other people, 7 attachment and separation, 8 thinking, 9 feeling good and feeling the best: healthy narcissism and omnipotence, 10 concern and oedipal wishes, <b>I I I the self in difficulty, </b>11 physical and emotional difficulties, afterword.</p>