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Narvaez, D., Panksepp, J., Schore, A.N., & Gleason, T.R. (Eds.) (2013). Evolution, Early Experience, and Human Development: From Research to Practice and Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 78-0-19-975505-9
A literature search piqued by the publication of an interesting article about babies on the internet led me to this text book filled with essays from some of my favorite researchers and authors in the field of attachment, neuroscience, and early nervous system development. Darcia Naevaez, PhD, associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, published a short list, "Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Babies" (Naevaez, 2013) in her blog in Psychology Today. The subheading caught my eye: Ignorance about babies is undermining society. Previously I did not know about Narvaez, and then, I just had to read everything she wrote.
I get excited every time I pick up this volume of essays and commentary. It is composed of publications of presentations from the conference, "Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the 'Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,'" held in 2010 at the University of Notre Dame. Not only is it filled with recent findings from excellent researchers like Allan Schore, Dan Siegel, Jaak Panksepp, Michael Meaney, Helen Ball, Bruce Perry, and many more, but it offers the hungry pre and perinatal intellectual practitioner exceptionally...