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3 - Emotion and the organization of development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2009

L. Alan Sroufe
L. Alan Sroufe
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University of Minnesota
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At the core of the latest biological, psychological and psychoanalytic models of development is an epigenetic principle which stresses the interactive nature of development, the continuing dialectic between the developing organism and its changing environment.

Schore (1994)

A general theory of development should conceive of organisms as active systems, maintaining some degree of integrity, stability, or self-regulation [and] should view change as a transition toward complexity of organization, involving multilevel functioning and organized wholes.

Santostefano (1978)

The issues pursued in this chapter concern the nature of development and the place of emotion in the study of human development more generally. A particular viewpoint on development, namely an “organizational” perspective, is advanced. The integrated and organized nature of development is illustrated, and a number of themes in early development are outlined. The implications of the general viewpoint and these particular themes for the traditional problems in emotional development are sketched here and drawn out in detail in subsequent chapters.

Two primary principles of development will be used to organize much of the discussion to follow. These two principles, synthesized from the work of major developmentalists such as James Mark Baldwin (1897), Werner (e.g., Werner & Kaplan, 1963; see also Glick, 1992), and Piaget (1952), are unity and emerging complexity.

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Emotional Development
The Organization of Emotional Life in the Early Years
 , pp. 38 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1996

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