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Dr Daniel N. Stern worked for 50 years as psychiatrist, psychotherapist and child psychologist. His sensitive researches have transformed our conception of the infant Self, and how from birth we strive to grow our understanding and skills in intimate connection with the affective life of others, creating narratives of dynamic imagination in movement. His theory strengthens the relations between different traditions of therapeutic care, and scientific understanding of how self- confidence in learning grows in mutual awareness.
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Colwyn Trevarthen
Colwyn Trevarthen is Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology at The University of Edinburgh. He has studied development of the brain and body, and infant and child communication, learning and emotional health, especially infants’ motives for creative play and shared learning, as well as the effects of disorders of development and stressful early childhood (Trevarthen, 1998). Recently he has written on how rhythms and expressions of ‘communicative musicality’ in movement share emotions with infants and help learning of language and other cultural skills (Malloch and Trevarthen, 2010).