Beschreibung:
This book explores and underlines the thesis that developmental psychology cannot function fruitfully without systematic historical scholarship. This book was first published as a special issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Introduction: Developmental psychology without positivistic pretentions 1. Why history matters: Placing infant and child development in historical perspective 2. Children and emotions history 3. Emotion, imagination and the world's furniture 4. Putting attachment in its place: Disciplinary and cultural contexts 5. Attachment histories and futures: reply to Vicedo's 'Putting attachment in its place' 6. On the history, present, and future of attachment theory: Reply to Robbie Duschinsky, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Sarah Foster, Sophie Reijman & Francesca Lionetti, 'Attachment histories and futures' 7. Cultural and historical diversity in early relationship formation 8. Authority, disciplinary intimacy & parenting in middle-class America 9. The parent: A cultural invention. The politics of parenting