Development

The findings of this research raise the question of how much of a role is the parent’s capacity for mentalization playing here? One needs to be able to fantasize a baby with her or his own inner life to be able to talk to the baby as if the baby understands. One presumes that a parent who talks to her …

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CFS Member Karen Proner is quoted offering a Kleinian perspective on some aspects of parenting in Dowling’s article. The Enduring Predictive Significance of Early Maternal Competence: Social and Academic Competence Through Age 32 Years by Raby et al., 2014. Findings from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation, an ambitious study following 243 people from birth to age 32 …

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