The Cradle of Thought : Challenging the Origins of Thinking

Hobson, Peter

ISBN 10: 0333766334 / ISBN 13: 9780333766330

Edité par Macmillan, 2002

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Synopsis :

A brilliant new book about the origins of thinking.In it, Peter Hobson, a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of London, examines how thought develops in infants, 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 its 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, but 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, this is a major work of popular science.

À propos de l?auteur: 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.

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Titre : The Cradle of Thought : Challenging the ...
Éditeur : Macmillan
Date d'édition : 2002
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good