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The study of children's minds got off track, Greenspan thinks, when investigators started watching youngsters putting pegs in holes rather than taking part in interpersonal actions. Greenspan's major thesis is that emotional relatedness is a substantial element in the child's mental development. He demonstrates the importance of emotions not only in the child's relations with family members but also in education, socializing, conflict resolution, and the prevention of violence both between individuals and in groups. Emotions, Greenspan argues, play roles in the organization of experience and behavior and even in the conceiving of abstractions; indeed, emotions affect the entire structure of personality (the fundamental limitation of artificial intelligence is that a computer can't experience emotion). Until educators learn how to foster the individual child's emotional growth, he maintains, they will continue to shortchange the future of our country. William Beatty
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A plea that we should put our money where our mouth is in the service of raising emotionally secure and healthy children. Psychiatrist Greenspan (George Washington Univ. School of Medicine; The Essential Partnership, 1989, etc.) offers a multistage theory of emotional development that somewhat parallels Erik Erikson's theory of emotional growth. Greenspan argues that developmental theories based on the separation of reason and emotion are misguided: You can't have one without the other in the nurturing of a whole and healthy adult. As cognitive development proceeds from sensation-seeking to ``operational'' thinking, so emotional development proceeds from ``making sense of sensation'' through organizing symbols based on cues from caregivers to the ability to recognize and reflect on feelings and thoughts. Greenspan devotes the first part of the book to defining the six stages of emotional development that form the basic structure of our mind and tracing how they influence intelligence and awareness. The later chapters are devoted to tracing the consequences of stunted emotional development, from high divorce rates to street violence and even war. Along the way Greenspan discusses how mental health professionals, educators, and social service workers frequently miss the boat in trying to help troubled children and families. He puts a heavy stress on parental responsibility, emphasizing that emotional--and hence intellectual--development must begin with an intense but sensitive and flexible one-to-one relationship between caregiver and infant, and asserting that the same caregiver should be present throughout infancy and childhood. Nevertheless, even teenagers stuck at early stages of emotional development--unable to empathize with another, for instance--can pass along to reflective maturity with the help of a mentoring relationship that provides the requisite intensity and consistency. Adds weight to recent efforts to legitimize early emotions as something far more than elements of a rich (but unproductive) fantasy life. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
The study of children's minds got off track, Greenspan thinks, when investigators started watching youngsters putting pegs in holes rather than taking part in interpersonal actions. Greenspan's major thesis is that emotional relatedness is a substantial element in the child's mental development. He demonstrates the importance of emotions not only in the child's relations with family members but also in education, socializing, conflict resolution, and the prevention of violence both between individuals and in groups. Emotions, Greenspan argues, play roles in the organization of experience and behavior and even in the conceiving of abstractions; indeed, emotions affect the entire structure of personality (the fundamental limitation of artificial intelligence is that a computer can't experience emotion). Until educators learn how to foster the individual child's emotional growth, he maintains, they will continue to shortchange the future of our country. William Beatty
From Kirkus Reviews
A plea that we should put our money where our mouth is in the service of raising emotionally secure and healthy children. Psychiatrist Greenspan (George Washington Univ. School of Medicine; The Essential Partnership, 1989, etc.) offers a multistage theory of emotional development that somewhat parallels Erik Erikson's theory of emotional growth. Greenspan argues that developmental theories based on the separation of reason and emotion are misguided: You can't have one without the other in the nurturing of a whole and healthy adult. As cognitive development proceeds from sensation-seeking to ``operational'' thinking, so emotional development proceeds from ``making sense of sensation'' through organizing symbols based on cues from caregivers to the ability to recognize and reflect on feelings and thoughts. Greenspan devotes the first part of the book to defining the six stages of emotional development that form the basic structure of our mind and tracing how they influence intelligence and awareness. The later chapters are devoted to tracing the consequences of stunted emotional development, from high divorce rates to street violence and even war. Along the way Greenspan discusses how mental health professionals, educators, and social service workers frequently miss the boat in trying to help troubled children and families. He puts a heavy stress on parental responsibility, emphasizing that emotional--and hence intellectual--development must begin with an intense but sensitive and flexible one-to-one relationship between caregiver and infant, and asserting that the same caregiver should be present throughout infancy and childhood. Nevertheless, even teenagers stuck at early stages of emotional development--unable to empathize with another, for instance--can pass along to reflective maturity with the help of a mentoring relationship that provides the requisite intensity and consistency. Adds weight to recent efforts to legitimize early emotions as something far more than elements of a rich (but unproductive) fantasy life. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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