Table of Contents

The Questions And Their Background; Exploring the Infants Subjective Experience: A Central Role for the Sense of Self; Perspectives and Approaches to Infancy; The Four Senses Of Self; The Sense of an Emergent Self; The Sense of a Core Self: I, Self versus Other; The Sense of a Core Self II, Self with Other; The Sense of a Subjective Self: I, Overview; The Sense of a Subjective Self: II, Affect Attunement; The Sense of a Verbal Self; Some Clinical Implications; The Observed Infant as Seen with a Clinical Eye; Some Implications for the Theories Behind Therapeutic Reconstructions; Implications for the Therapeutic Process of Reconstructing a Developmental Past; Epilogue.