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Sessions:
Attachment: Session 4
Mary Main and Contemporary Research
Jeffery Smith, MD
jssmith@me.com
Reading: Karen, Section IV, 267-357. Optional: Fonagy, Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis, Chapter 2, 19-46.
Written Assignment: After each session, please write a 1 page reacton: "What struck you about this reading." Bring your paper to share at the beginning of class.
A Few Key Points--
Stella Chess and Temperament, An alternate explanation? See Fonagy, pg. 25.
Kagan, sympathetic view, pg. 295.
The realities and politics of daycare
Stern and Tronick: Empathic attunement -- See Fonagy, pg. 27.
Clinical application: The vicisitudes of attunement.