Developing Through Relationships

Preface
Part I: Communication processes
1. Introduction and perspective
Relational perspective
Developmental perspective
Cultural perspective
About this book
2. The origins of communication, self and culture
Guiding principles
Communication, self and culture in infancy
Proposals for a relational perspective on infant development
3. The communication system: co-regulation and framing
Co-regulation
Consensual frames
4. The communication system: history and metaphor
Systems and interdependence
Metaphors in social and developmental psychology
The fundamental problem of being-in-relation
5. A model of communication: meaning and information
Discrete and continuous models of communicative information
Information in continuous process communication systems
Part II: The relationship processes
6. The formation of relationships: creating new meaning
Models of relationship formation
Creativity in relationships
Conclusions
7. The formation of relationships: differences between dyads
Processes of self-organization within relationships
A dynamic model of consensual framing in relationships
The formation of differences between relationships
Conclusions: two patterns of relationship formation
8. The self in relation: embodied cognition
Embodied cognition
Participatory cognition
Imaginative cognition
Infant cognition and its development
9. The self in relation: self and other
The dialogical self in adults
The dialogical self in infancy
The dialogical self is co-regulated
10. Culture as communication: stability and change
Culture as a process
Culture and infancy
11. Conclusions and implications
Developmental determinism and indeterminism
Forms of information: morality, aesthetics and affiliation
Research approaches to relationship development
Bibliography
General index
Name index