Marta Vaciago Smith - Böcker

Personality Development is a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances.Contents include:* intra-uterine life and the experience of birth* babyhood: becoming a person in the family* the toddler and the wider world* the latency period.Using clinical and observational material, it will be of interest to those teaching personality development courses, as well as mental health and child care professionals.