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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458986703321

Autore

Frank Ruella

Titolo

The first year and the rest of your life : movement, development, and psychotherapeutic change / / Ruella Frank, Frances La Barre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-135-15741-3

1-283-04506-0

9786613045065

0-203-85747-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

La BarreFrances

Disciplina

155.42/223

Soggetti

Nonverbal communication in infants

Interpersonal communication in infants

Motor ability in infants

Infants - Development

Parent and infant

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The significance of the first year -- Why movement? -- Six fundamental movements -- Kinetic temperament -- Embodied history -- Working with parent couples -- Working with individual adults.

Sommario/riassunto

The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself and conveys desires, intentions, and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the roots of ongoing nonverbal interaction and later verbal expression - in short, this language remains a key element in communication throughout life.In their path-breaking book, gestalt therapist Ruella Frank and psychoanalyst Frances La Barre give readers the tools to see and understand the logic of this nonverbal realm. They demonstrate how observations of fundamental movement interactions between babies and pa