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List of contents
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
About the author
Willem Koops is Distinguished Professor of Foundations and History of Developmental Psychology and Education at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is the Editor of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD).
Frank Kessel is Emeritus Professor at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, where he was in the College of Education’s Early Childhood Multicultural Education Program and a Senior Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy. Previously, he served for twelve years as Program Director of the Culture, Health and Human Development Program at the Social Science Research Council, New York City, USA. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the ISSBD.
Summary
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.
