Quotes About Development

data became available from research that gave equal weight to both genetic and social influences on development.

The quality of the environments that are thought to be so important to development, including stress, life events, and trauma (and probably also maternal attunement and sensitivity), can all be inherited. It is likely that personality characteristics that we had often thought of as—and what the child might experience as—the consequence of the parents' behavior toward the child are in fact genetic predispositions.

playing with reality, making the real unreal and vice versa, is the principal avenue for the development of mentalization.

lower levels of coordination are optimal for secure attachment and easy temperament;

Disorganization of attachment may be the indication of exceptionally poor mentalization.

experience with parents as pivotal in shaping an individual's values, beliefs, character, and, naturally, dysfunctions in adaptation.

provides empirical support for the notion that an infant's sense of self emerges from the affective quality of relationship with the primary caregiver.

Perhaps more relevant to us from an attachment standpoint are the classic studies of rat pups separated from their mother in the first two weeks of life, who appear to incur a permanent increase in the expression of genes controlling the secretion of CRF (corticotrophin-releasing factor)

We shall argue that attachment is not an end in itself; rather, it exists in order to produce a representational system that has evolved, we may presume, to aid human survival.

Mentalization—a concept that is familiar in developmental circles—is the process by which we realize that having a mind mediates our experience of the

mental agency may be more usefully seen as a developing or constructed capacity.

understanding of the self as a mental agent grows out of interpersonal experience, particularly primary-object relationships

1 Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization

And I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

Only the second-rate never make mistakes.

Siegel, who codirects UCLA's Mindsight Institute and is author of the scientifically acclaimed books "The Developing Mind: and "The Mindful Brain," broke down the essential sequence of surprise as expectation + violation of expectation. He quoted Jerome Bruner, one of the fathers of cognitive psychology, who said "narrative emerges from violations to expectations.

Which to me means that one must respect not just the story but the way in which it develops; judging the past by the standards of the present sheds little light on understanding, it represents no more than the I-told-you-sos of history.

Our respect is such that we assume that children will try to fix their error and make better decisions next time.

Do you think that when Barack Obama was a young boy in kindergarten, do think that sometimes he made mistakes?

Das ist eine der anstrengenderen Seiten von Moritz, die er mit dem Alter entwickelt hat - die Mischung aus Perfidie und Sentimentalität.

Wydoro?le? znaczy najpierw zapomnie?, a potem zaprzeczy? temu, co by?o wa?ne, gdy si? by?o dzieckiem.

Any grading system is meaningless. Every attempt to compare cultures with the intention of determining which is the most developed will never be anything other than one more bullshit projection of Western culture's hatred of its own shadows.

Sentimentality will always be man's first revolt against development.

We are all created as self-developing organisms. It's never too late to become whom you were meant to be. Even the universe is expanding. So, too, is human understanding. The development of faith is a part of God's unfolding, emerging Spirit. Staying static is not our destiny. Transformation is.