Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-648) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- General principles of growth of the developing brain -- Recent advances in the multidisciplinary study of emotional development -- Structure-function relationships of the orbitofrontal cortex -- Visual experience and socioemotional development -- The practicing period -- The psychobiology of affective reunions -- Early imprinting -- Imprinting neuroendocrinology -- Socioaffective influences on orbitofrontal morphological development -- The emotionally expressive face -- The neurochemical circuitry of imprinted interactive representations -- The regulatory function of early internal working models -- The onset of socialization procedures and the emergence of shame -- Late orbitofrontal development -- Orbitofrontal versus dorsolateral prefrontal ontogeny -- The dyadic origin of internal shame regulation -- Socialization and experience-dependent parcellation -- The origins of infantile sexuality and psychological gender -- The onset of dual component orbitofrontal mature structure and adaptive function -- A psychoneurobiological model of the dual circuit processing of socioemotional information -- Cross-modal transfer and abstract representations -- The development of increasingly complex interactive representations -- Orbitofrontal influences on the autonomic nervous system -- The regulation of infantile rage reactions -- Affect regulation and early moral development -- The emergence of self-regulation -- The neurobiology of insecure attachments -- The clinical psychiatry of affect dysregulation -- The developmental psychopathology of personality disorders -- Vulnerability to psychosomatic disease -- Psychotherapy of developmental disorders -- Right hemiospheric language and self-regulation -- The dialogical self and the emergence of consciousness -- Further direction of multidisciplinary study -- A proposed rapprochement between psychoanalysis and neurobiology.
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