The Growth of the Mind: And the Endangered Origins of Intelligence

This compelling book reveals the six fundamental levels that form the architecture of our minds. The growth of these levels, four of which are deeper even than the unconscious, depends on a series of critical but subtle emotional transactions between an infant and a devoted caregiver. In mapping these interactions, Dr. Greenspan formulates the elusive building blocks of creative and analytic thinking and provides an exciting missing link between recent discoveries in neuroscience and the qualities that make us most fully human. He also sounds a warning: these mind-building experiences are being eroded in child-rearing and educational practices. He offers specific solutions to restoring them in families, daycare, schools and in social policy.

Author: Stanley I. Greenspan, Beryl Lieff Benderly
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 10/09/1998
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.20w x 1.03d
ISBN13: 9780738200262
ISBN10: 0738200263
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Psychology | Neuropsychology

About the Author
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., author of the widely used and praised books The Challenging Child and (with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.) Engaging Autism, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Beryl Lieff Benderly is the author of several books, including Dancing without Music: Deafness in America.