Intersubjective Minds Rhythm, Sympathy, and Human Being

Intersubjective Minds brings together world leaders in developmental psychology, biology, neuroscience, music, education, philosophy and psychiatry to consolidate the lifetime work of Professor Emeritus Colwyn Trevarthen, FRSE. Spanning research from the 1960s to the present, Trevarthen's contributions to science have changed our understanding of infancy, neuroscience, education and musicality. The chapters included in this book from these diverse fields describe current issues, principles and perspectives for advanced theory and working practice on the role of intersubjectivity in early human life, its contribution to health, education and learning, and therefore its role in scientific understanding of the fundamentals of the human mind. By bringing together world renowned scholars, scientists, medical and educational practitioners, this book serves as a landmark for the field of intersubjectivity.

1 - Foreword
2 - Agency and Affect in the Intentional Activity of the Infant: The life work of Colwyn Trevarthen
3 - The Evidence for Innate Intersubjectivity
4 - The psychology of prenatal research: is there a future in behavioural observational research?
5 - Conversations with a 2-day old
6 - Attachment, Moment of Meeting and Intersubjectivity at birth
7 - Trevarthen's Primary Intersubjectivity: An Appreciation and an Elaboration.
8 - Intersubjectivity: A unit of analysis for developmental psychology.
9 - From intersubjectivity to atmosphere: insights from photography
10 - The psychobiologist who taught musicians how to sing.
11 - Play, Tickling and Companionship.
12 - Elements of communication: A Dialogue
13 - Therapeutic Conversations: Sharing and Building Communicative Musicality
14 - How does vocal portamento differ from vocal glissando? A Case Study
15 - The music of intersubjective interaction: Distinguishing basic and higher-order empathies
18 - The Functional Architecture of Mother-Infant Communication, and the Mirror Neuron System.
19 - Mirroring Emotions and Vitality Forms
20 - Imitation as a synchroniser of minds and brains.
21 - Neuroarcheology, Developmental Inflection Points and Colwyn's Voice: On Building a Neurodevelopmental Perspective into Clinical Practice
22 - Empathy as developmental achievement
23 - Philosophical Consideration of the Metaphysics of Intersubjectivity
24 - Neoteny, social practice and meaning-making
25 - Human vocal production learning: the nature and genesis of our watershed adaptation
26 - Primary Intersubjectivity and its Role in the Development of Language: An Essay in Honour of Colwyn Trevarthen
27 - Intersubjective Conversations
28 - The Dance of Emotions in Infant´s Semiolinguistic Development - Reflections on a Relational Research Methodology
29 - The artistic imagination of Colwyn Trevarthen - the poetry of newborn behaviour and early relationships.
30 - How Colwyn's theoretical ideas, vitality and values have created and continue to sustain VIG development.
31 - Companionship vs Care: Why models of infancy matter for the 21st century
32 - Walking, affective ties words and play in an autistic child.
33 - Amae in infancy and the theory of intersubjectivity and companionship: Trevarthen's contribution to culturally-aligned clinical interventions for Japanese Families
34 - Change the Child or Change the System? Reflections on transitions in early childhood.
35 - Connected Cooperative Companionship Grounds Children's Dance into Morality
36 - What do young children have to say? Recognising their wisdom, agency and need for companionship in a time of crisis.
37 - Universal Harmony

Jonathan Delafield-Butt's work examines the origins of conscious experience and the embodied and emotional foundations of psychological development, with attention to the subtle but significant motor disruption evident in autism spectrum disorder. He took his Ph.D. in Developmental Neurobiology at the University of Edinburgh before extending to Developmental Psychology advancing intersubjectivity theory in postdoctoral work at the Universities of Edinburgh and Copenhagen. He held scholarships at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh for science-philosophy bridgework in the nature of brain-mind relationship. Delafield-Butt trained pre-clinically in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Scottish Institute for Human Relations. He is a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, the International Society for Autism Research, and the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at Gothenburg. Vasudevi Reddy has been interested in the origins and early development of social cognition, for three decades now, and has been exploring the role of emotional engagement in social understanding. She focuses on everyday, ordinary engagements (such as teasing and joking and showing-off or feeling shy) which often tend to get ignored in mainstream theories. Her interest in engagement as the route to understanding has led her to questions about the nature and influence of culture on social understanding. Her book How Infants Know Minds published by Harvard University Press in 2008 argues for a second-person approach to knowing minds, a dialogical and emotion-based route to an old problem. She is Emeritus Professor of Developmental and Cultural Psychology at the University of Portsmouth in the UK