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Exflocing Dynamic Expenence
in Pry logy , the At,
Propo Merapy , and Deselepmeut
Daniel N. Shem Md
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(NBAS). This stale is designed to evaluate the
ies, as wel as
Aisorganiaed passive, aggressive, rejecting et. This en then
y.and voice. Parents are a
spectacle to ply upon thet
his works, 2 central sin:
le psychological principle must be kept in mind. Asa stimulus
getsstronger, the arousal tht itevokes gets pester. In dition,
very aroused and
‘When te stimulus i too strong
aversive and the infant wil try
babies Become experts in suddenly filing asleep.
"These re wide swings in arousl to downregulate thee level
of arousal, Other babies become overloaded, their epulatory
system falls, and they cry. These are the anlage of defensessnd coping mechs
Iie (Stern, 1971, 1977,
italy forms.
‘The baby will be optimally aroused to play and be happy in
thezonea shor time before he ges overstimulated. To keep the
sms, They ate necesary experiences for
‘Moreover, they have distinctive
By the third or fourth timethe parent does thesame
he baby willbe disinterested. Habituation determines the
progressively slowing down her movements to tease anticps
tion and ratchet up extemen while prepatng fr the"punch-
Tine. o slow contouring
of vitality forms to
ay with
Development of neurobiological aspects
Jeap occurs (Emde & Harmon, 1984; Yamada ea, 2000), anditthen gos through a rita period of growth from roughly 10
with minima corti reulation, and th opennes ofthe early
developing nervous sytem ta.
Finally, we come back othe view ofthe primacy of move:
ts dynamic features asthe developmental infiastve-
‘ure for what wil follow.
Further questions about the experience and
representation of vitality forms
in development
An inl question arses, Why did nature plan for babies nto
speakand not to understand words forthe fst yet oro oftheir
language arrives to me
‘non-verbal anlogic, namic Gestalt that are not compete
‘With the dicontinuous, digi, categorical mature of words,
for whom), what you do wit your fae (and with whom), how
‘to ks, how to read body postions howto elicit another for
food, for physical contat oo play,
‘We have tem sich knowledge impli relational knowing.
leismon-conscious and non-verbal. Katlen Lyons Ruth
mace by many cognitive paychologss, which we have
to apply tothe rational domain.
forms of interpersonal happenings are pat of
knowing. One neds much dyna
maton to reognize how someone moves, haw they ge angry
and when their anger wil ces, or concerning thet cttetion,
when are the ely, lly
‘The suggestion i a fellows Inthe east stages of
infantis fist or predomina
the most pry event andthe mos sent ba)
3t does not come alone. Movement takes
motion willbe imbued wih fre. The elem
fr gening the Golo manic iy fore, resent
le, movement and her four daughters
‘the modalities ae not yet fully discriminated, However the
ay forms are I this wees, smalton from any sensory‘modlty would first be experiencedas dynamicflow of move
‘ment, contoured intima, imbued with force, and with an inte
say, it would bea vitality form, a
tal dynamic penta,
3 the very young, bat wth
nd /pal. These appear tobe categorical difrences, but closer
look shows that they ae miero-dymami, having to do with the
ite time of sound in “plosives (the "p" and "5" (Eis
1971) The situation is complicated in that diferent
‘may ave dlfrent timetables fr dicrimination among ttc
stimali because of anatomic, physiologic snd evolutionary fe
tion could be acquired afte birth with appropriate experience.
‘Thisiscompaible with the new findings on multisensory ne
rons (see above) and general iterconnectivity within the
bain
research advances to understand this farther.
‘Another take on vitality forms in infancy
In Chapter 3, 1 suggested the notion o
(italy form matching), where the moter uses
ior to match the vitality form oft
“purposely” elective kind of imitation, She imitates fthlly
‘he dynamic features, but with a different content ns diferent
‘modality. The concept of affect ttunement has been widely
‘sed afcliniallyhelpfl but tha oftenbeen confounded withappropriateness, oF "good mothering.
stanly ar of ll hse, bu ass more ested sense.
themother matches the dynamic features
Thisassures the baby that she praspe what he
‘This may sound complicated, but patents have the in
‘senility and empathy todo al this without hiking,
‘underattunement” and “overattunement”
or example, a child expresses delight in sing a
toy machine gun ound in friend's house, and ets ox yep
fj. themotherisnot lighted but doesnot want to squash
powerful
tool in the parents ongoing sociation ofthe infant into the
‘snimportantpatin thecal” shapingofbehsvor. Markova
&Leperstee (206) asked what kinds of maternal responses are
ial awareness and pos-
Contingency te model sugested byte wok ergy
‘Watson (1999) and Gergely etal (1995). “Contingency”