The Primary Intersubjectivity and the Gestalt Theory

Arfelli-Galli, Anna

doi:10.2478/gth-2018-0015

Abstract

For the study of the first year of life, Sander, Stern, and Gomez each chose the adult–infant relationship as the unit of analysis; they followed its development, respectively, in moments of meeting, in the proto-conversation and in the focus of attention. The authors explicitly refer to the Gestalt theory and support the need to interpret the behavior of the child as part of a wider context, as the experiences of a person in relation (Galli, 2010) since birth.

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