The clinical child and the observed child of Daniel Stern. The current need to move towards the contextual child
https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2013.388
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The contribution highlights some theoretical assumptions underlying psychoanalytic models of development and highlights how Daniel Stern's work and research have subverted these assumptions and pushed psychoanalysis to a profound conceptual rethinking. The second part of the paper suggests an epistemological critique of Chusman's thought, highlighting the tendency, underlying Stern's theory, to conceive the development of the child in the direction of an intrinsic and universal constitution of an "autonomous self". Finally, on the basis of Michele Minolli's theoretical perspective based on the epistemology of complexity, some principles are suggested for a conception of development defined as "contextual".
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