How love shapes a child"s brain

The book explains why love is necessary for the development of the brain in the first years of the child"s life and how the characteristics of the emotional interaction between the babies and their parents for further development and which consequences are given.
Sue Gerhardt, English psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, examines the process of exposure to the earliest relationships on the formation of the nervous system of the baby. It shows how the brain development affects further emotional well-being, and considers specific early response samples, which may further affect our methods of perception of stress, as well as on the occurrence of such conditions as anorexia, dependence of various kinds and antisocial behavior.
This book is a living and affordable interpretation of recent studies in the field of neurology, physiology, psychoanalysis and biochemistry. This is an invaluable reading for parents and specialists working in the field of child care