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出版社周刊评论
Intelligence is shaped by felt experience, claims psychiatrist Greenspan (The Challenging Child, etc.). Meaningful development occurs when, as children, we experience feelings of warmth and compassion. Our sense of self, of intelligence, and the mental and social health of our nation suffer when we miss any of the required steps of emotional experience. Greenspan disagrees with the theories of Kant and Piaget but amplifies those of Freud to show the overriding importance of emotions ("lived experience") in the development of intelligence. This influence, a sort of "dual coding," begins much earlier than Freud hypothesized, according to Greenspan. It also has physical correlates in the actual structure of the brain. The author draws upon a broad range of research in a number of disciplines, plus decades of his own involvement with autistic children, normal children and multiproblem families. His conclusions about the necessity of a stable, caring environment for the full fruition of intelligence lead him to make wide-ranging, radical suggestions to reorganize child-raising, and to transform the educational system and to reconstruct the workplace. These changes would, he claims, reduce violence, improve international understanding and reform the practice of psychotherapy. Greenspan discusses the physiology of the brain and provides fascinating insights into the processes of memory, consciousness and the subconscious. His approach is scholarly and rather technical, but the ideas he presents are important ones, worthy of hearing by the general public as well as by his professional peers. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
A plea that we should put our money where our mouth is in the service of raising emotionally secure and healthy children. Psychiatrist Greenspan (George Washington Univ. School of Medicine; The Essential Partnership, 1989, etc.) offers a multistage theory of emotional development that somewhat parallels Erik Erikson's theory of emotional growth. Greenspan argues that developmental theories based on the separation of reason and emotion are misguided: You can't have one without the other in the nurturing of a whole and healthy adult. As cognitive development proceeds from sensation-seeking to ``operational'' thinking, so emotional development proceeds from ``making sense of sensation'' through organizing symbols based on cues from caregivers to the ability to recognize and reflect on feelings and thoughts. Greenspan devotes the first part of the book to defining the six stages of emotional development that form the basic structure of our mind and tracing how they influence intelligence and awareness. The later chapters are devoted to tracing the consequences of stunted emotional development, from high divorce rates to street violence and even war. Along the way Greenspan discusses how mental health professionals, educators, and social service workers frequently miss the boat in trying to help troubled children and families. He puts a heavy stress on parental responsibility, emphasizing that emotional--and hence intellectual--development must begin with an intense but sensitive and flexible one-to-one relationship between caregiver and infant, and asserting that the same caregiver should be present throughout infancy and childhood. Nevertheless, even teenagers stuck at early stages of emotional development--unable to empathize with another, for instance--can pass along to reflective maturity with the help of a mentoring relationship that provides the requisite intensity and consistency. Adds weight to recent efforts to legitimize early emotions as something far more than elements of a rich (but unproductive) fantasy life.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
The study of children's minds got off track, Greenspan thinks, when investigators started watching youngsters putting pegs in holes rather than taking part in interpersonal actions. Greenspan's major thesis is that emotional relatedness is a substantial element in the child's mental development. He demonstrates the importance of emotions not only in the child's relations with family members but also in education, socializing, conflict resolution, and the prevention of violence both between individuals and in groups. Emotions, Greenspan argues, play roles in the organization of experience and behavior and even in the conceiving of abstractions; indeed, emotions affect the entire structure of personality (the fundamental limitation of artificial intelligence is that a computer can't experience emotion). Until educators learn how to foster the individual child's emotional growth, he maintains, they will continue to shortchange the future of our country. --William Beatty
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This highly readable book expands the traditional viewpoint of intelligence as solely a psychometric performance factor to a broadened definition of cognition that includes the capacity for empathy and self-reflection, elements highly dependent on early emotional experience with primary caretakers. Greenspan, postulating six fundamental developmental levels of the mind that draw to some extent on Piagetian theories, presents a heavily weighted nurture approach by emphasizing that many early developmental problems such as autism show promise of being remediated if there is a sufficiently sensitive environment. Supportive anecdotal descriptions, based on his years of clinical experience, are liberally sprinkled throughout. In the final part, he addresses societal problems such as conflict resolution, the high divorce rate in marriage, and rampant escalating violence. The final chapter applies his developmental principles of maturity to world conflict. Although he overreaches with his certainty that all problems can be resolved by constructive parenting and involved communities, his discussions are quite engaging and will interest a wide audience. General readers; undergraduates. P. Barker; Schenectady County Community College