Cradle of Thought

Informationen zum Autor As well as being Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Tavistock Clinic and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at UCL, Peter Hobson works as a psychotherapist with adults and is the Director of the Unit for the Study of Lifespan Development. He is the author of The Cradle of Thought . Klappentext A riveting insight from a renowned pyschologist into how infants learn to think A riveting insight from a renowned pyschologist into how infants learn to think Zusammenfassung In Cradle of Thought Peter Hobson, a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of London, examines how thought develops in infants, focussing on the subsequent differences in the quality of thinking between individuals and what this suggests about the place of thought in the history of evolution. At the book's heart is a radical new theory which tackles head-on the ideas of people like Stephen Pinker. Hobson firmly refutes the notion that thinking is turned on by biologically pre-determined 'modules' in the brain, arguing instead that it arises from the nature and quality of the relationship between parent and child in the first eighteen months of life. Drawing on twenty years of clinical experience, on case histories and experimental and clinical research, this will be a controversial book not only in scientific circles, but also in its contribution to the wider parenting, IQ and nature/nurture debates. Accessible, authoritative and extremely readable, Cradle of Thought is a major work of popular science. 'Any parent reading his account will recognise that it makes sense' Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hobson
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2007
• EAN: 9780330488280
• ISBN: 978-0-330-48828-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, SCIENCE / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, The self, ego, identity, personality, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Parenting: advice and issues