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The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost (Classics in Human Development) Paperback – January 22, 1986

by Jean Liedloff (Author)

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Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.

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Jean Liedloff practices and teaches psychotherapy based on the Continuum Concept, She lectures and broadcasts in many countries where her views have earned a substantial following. She is living in California.

Series: Classics in Human Development
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press; Reprint edition (January 22, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201050714
ISBN-13: 978-0201050714
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 8.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 218 customer reviews
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- #1014 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Happiness
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Everyone having a baby should read it, and other folks too!

Bytamarineraon March 12, 2014

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Jean Liedloff gets it. Explains so much about what modern European-derived culture has to learn from "primitive" cultures. Will give new parents the confidence to trust their instincts, and a great overall approach to parenting. Not to worry: it's not filled with specific directives, just broad strokes about how "primitive" folks raise their children and live in community. Incredible stuff for us "moderns" to learn. Will explain a lot to those who do not have children, also: about how our early babyhood has effected who we are as adults. It's a classic, and the best, in my opinion.

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it's just not always easy to do living in western culture where there is ...

ByPookieon June 13, 2017

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Yay! A book about the truth of baby care and how crucial it is to their emotional, spiritual and mental well being!! Unlike anything out there, and I'm grateful to have the privilege of reading it. It is my "baby bible". Prouder than ever of my 9 month old's milestones of emotional health, it's just not always easy to do living in western culture where there is not many ppl around to play with her and help me. But i like how she looks at a child as a young person and not Just a baby doll to dress up and coo with. They Need a learning environment and healthy role models. They learn by watching you. I love this book!!!

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Trust Your Instincts and not Other's Opinions

Bydreaming of the sunon November 16, 2013

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In my undergrad studies I had heard about this book and it's been on my reading list for some time. I finally got around to reading it and was glad that I did. As a mother of two babies under two it's both helpful and heart breaking, as someone who studies culture and babies for a living I think it's an important work.
I have observed the behavior that Liedloff talks about for myself in non-Western societies and it's true that the children I see in South America and Africa seem to be the happiest, most well-adjusted children that I have seen anywhere. From my own experience there I had, without thinking, incorporated a few of their practices into my babies lives. What I am sad to say is that I didn't do it enough with my daughter and now I am afraid that she's too old for them to work, but I'm trying. I am also doing it with my son who is almost seven months and I have seen a difference in his behavior. He was never an unhappy child, just one that didn't like to be put down-ever! Before I read this book people told me I was holding him too much. I and my husband ignored them, but I felt that twinge of guilt that happens when you go against what society and your peers tell you. Now I know I was correct in my actions and my feelings. As I type this he's happily asleep on my lap and can sleep through anything and everything. I do everything with him and I do mean everything and he is the calmest, most well adjusted baby I know, and people tell us that all the time. My daughter was not held as much and now that she's at the stage where's she's trying to be independent it may be too late for her, but we'll keep trying.
Get this now before you have a baby. Or even if you do. I hope it's never too late.

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Human- appropriate child rearing perspective

ByAmazon Customeron December 13, 2012

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This book gives you a very fresh perspective on how human children should be raised. There are no shoulds and oughts here. It's just about how children are raised in more natural circumstances. I don't think the value of this book is to necessarily do as mothers in the Amazon forest do, but to get rid of all our artificial child-rearing practices and really think about what human children really need from their caretakers.

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Recommended Book

ByHeatheron January 20, 2016

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The book was really interesting, although, the second chapter was hard to get through. The reason I give it four and not five stars is that I had hoped the book would give some specific/detailed ways to raise a baby. For example, it talks about the in-arms phase of childrearing but it doesn't say practical ways to get the child to start crawling or how to know when the baby is ready to start crawling on its own if you are keeping him/her in your arms at all times. However, the book has a lot of insights into how those of us in developed nations raise children and how some of these ways may be less natural than we assumed.

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Not a perfect book, but definitely a must-read.

ByAlyssaon September 17, 2010

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I read this about a month after my son was born. I wish I had read it sooner.

I just read several comments that pointed out that many of the philosophies in the book are not supported by scientific research, and some pointed out that the author doesn't have children so her opinions must be invalid.

As I read the book, all of it just made a lot of sense to me. I do think it is missing a little bit of "proof" or whatever you want to call it, just to reassure the readers and whatnot. But since so much of it made sense to me, I tried it for myself, and fully believe in what she's saying. And she doesn't need to be a mother in order to know what she is talking about.

What stuck with me the most is it made me not feel guilty for taking care of my son and not "letting" him cry himself to sleep. How backwards is society that I get flack for carrying my 3 month old in my arms instead of a stroller and for always fulfilling his most basic needs?

So while the book is by no means perfect, the message is good, and I think everybody (and I mean EVERYBODY) should read it.

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It is one of the most important books I have ...

Byjames gloson August 24, 2016

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It is one of the most important books I have read in my life. Although written many years ago, its message has an application to our present world and to the years ahead. We talk much in these days about compassion and the many victims of the lack of compassion. Yet, there are so much unnoticed and unconscious acts of violence ocurring and most of us have been its victims. My hope is that this book helps us discover what the new-born really need in order to live serenely in our world.

Jim Glos

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One of my favourite books ever

ByMrs Brunaon April 24, 2013

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I first read this when I was pregnant with my daughter and parts of it made me very emotional. I used it as a guide in raising my child. As much as possible I followed Jean Liedloff's principles like family sleeping, staying home from work to care for the baby, holding her a lot and never putting her in a playpen. Today she's a beautiful, emotionally well-developed 15-year-old who excels at school and has no drug, alcohol or alienation issues. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It should be given to every expectant mother in North America, where we have lost the age-old wisdom of child rearing.

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required reading

Every soon-to-be parent should read this. It is my belief that both our children and our society would benefit immensely from it.

Published 1 month ago by Amber Watrous

Eye opening!

I've already been doing a lot of what's been described in the book, mostly by instinct, but I'm also guilty of being an overly protective mother.Read more

Published 2 months ago by A. Thompson

Three Stars

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One of the best books I have ever read

One of the best books I have ever read. I highly recommend, especially for expecting parents. It confirmed the intuitions I have been having as a pregnant mother.

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Amazing

Such a good book!!

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Published 8 months ago by Krista

There are better, more interesting books on this subject.

Boring read.

Published 8 months ago by Ryan

The most influential book on my life!

I am so grateful to Jean Liedloff and to my Botany tutor who gave me this book to read before I started my family 32 years ago.Read more

Published 9 months ago by Elizabeth L O'Brien

A Great Example of how life can be different (happier, more peaceful, more fulfilling).

This is a great book for seeing how things can be different. In the modern world we are all stressed and running and "doing" all the time--we have forgotten that...The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams by Debbie Ford; The Ringing Cedar Series, by Megre; by Katie Player).Read more

Published 9 months ago by KSP13

this is a really great and thought provoking read

For the most part, this is a really great and thought provoking read. It helped me IMMENSELY in not getting stressed out about things like night wakings.Read more

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