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This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a life’s work. The idea concerns the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in terms of basic principles that govern the living system as an ongoing creative process – a process in which there is a continuing impetus, both energizing and motivational, that moves the living system toward an enhanced coherence in its engagement with its surround as it achieves an ever-increasing inclusiveness of complexity. The papers have been selected in a roughly chronological order from a career of early developmental research within the background of psychoanalytic thinking. The biological underpinnings of psychoanalysis can be extended by systems thinking. Our notions of the evolution of consciousness can also be extended from this simple level of a neural machinery essential for adaptation and survival to the capacity for the awareness of one’s own inner state within the flow of one’s engagement with one’s surround. From this enrichment of inner experiencing through evolving self-awareness, the unique organization of the “person” emerges within the developmental process – from expectancies and emotions, to values, meaning, purpose, goals, and “direction”. The title of the book has been chosen to capture this sequence. Further evolution of conscious organization will enable the human species to achieve the state of being “together-with” and yet “distinct-from” as the system as a whole, on a wider, more global level, gains increasing coherence as it complexity increases. Hopefully, the implications of this idea will emerge in the reader’s thinking, as the chapters move from the level of adaptation to recognition.

Living Systems Evolving Consciousness and the Emerging Person A Selection of Papers from the Life Work of Louis Sander 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: Early Mother–Child Interaction

Chapter 1: Issues in Early Mother–Child Interaction

  • Descriptive Clinical Material

  • Period of Initial Adaptation (0–2.5 months)

  • Period of Reciprocal Exchange (Approx. 2.5–5 months)

  • Period of Early Directed Activity of the Infant (5–9 months)

  • Period of Focalization on Mother (9–15 months)

  • Period of Self-Assertion (12–18 months)

  • Summary

  • Notes

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Chapter 2: Adaptive Relationships in Early Mother–Child Interaction

  • The Two Mother–Child Pairs

  • The Developmental Course of the Two Mothers

  • Pregnancy and Birth

  • Period 1: Primary Modulation (Months 1–3)

  • Period 2: Social–Affective Modulation (Months 4–6)

  • Period 3: Initiative (Months 7–9)

  • Period 4: Focalization (Months 10–14)

  • Discussion

  • Notes

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Chapter 3: The Longitudinal Course of Early Mother–Child Interaction

  • Cross–Case Comparison

  • The Method of Longitudinal Course Comparison

  • Five Central Issues

  • Case 1: Ellen and Mrs. Q.

  • Case 2: Ned S. and His Mother

  • Case 3: Bud and Mrs. E.

  • Appendix 3.A: Data Extraction Categories

  • Appendix 3.B: Schedule of Contacts

  • Notes

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Chapter 4: Infant and Caretaking Environment

  • Investigating Adaptive Behavior in an Increasingly Complex System

  • A Longitudinal Naturalistic Perspective

  • Issue 5: Self-Assertion

  • Issue 6: Recognition

  • Issue 7: Continuity or “Self” Constancy

  • Recap and Summary

  • Conceptualizations of Adaptive Behavior

  • Notes

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Part 2: The Infant–Caregiving System as a Biological System

Chapter 5: Investigating the Infant and Its Caregiving Environment as a Biological System

  • The Research Problem

  • The Biological System

  • Viewing the Infant–Caregiving Environment as a System

  • Methods

  • Findings

  • Summary

  • Discussion

  • Notes

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Chapter 6: Investigating Interactive Regulation in Three Infant–Caregiving Systems

  • Study Design

  • Methods of Data Collection

  • Recap

  • Notes

  • Editor’s Note

  • References

Chapter 7: The Event-Structure of Regulation in the Neonate–Caregiver System

  • Biological Background for Early Psychic Organization

  • Note

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Chapter 8: Paradox and Resolution: From the Beginning

  • Illustrative Example of “Being Together With”

  • Case Example

  • Illustrative Example of “Being Distinct From”

  • Resolution of Paradox

  • Notes

  • References

Chapter 9: Recognition Process: Context and Experience of Being Known

  • Note

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Part 3: Theoretical Reflections and Broader Perspectives

Chapter 10: Reflections on the Developmental Process

  • Wholeness, Specificity, and the Organization of Conscious Experience

  • Note

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Chapter 11: Awareness of Inner Experience

  • A Systems Perspective on Self-Regulatory Process in Early Development

  • A Constructionist View

  • Integration

  • Individual Uniqueness

  • Summary

  • Note

  • Editor’s Notes

  • References

Chapter 12: Thinking Differently

  • Principles of Process in Living Systems

  • General Systems Theory and the Problem of Life

  • The Nonlinear Dynamic System

  • Coherence at the Cellular Level

  • Specificity and Rhythmicity

  • Specificity: Observing the “Device”

  • Rhythmicity and Its Broader Role

  • Brain and Development

  • Brain and Perception

  • Thinking Differently in Psychotherapy

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

  • Editors’ Notes

  • References

Chapter 13: Development as Creative Process

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