Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : 'who fished the murex up? what porridge had john keats?' / Andrew Packard
  • Vitality, affect, and agency in the intersubjectivity of Colwyn Trevarthen / Jonathan Delafield-Butt and Vasudevi Reddy
  • The evidence for innate intersubjectivity / Benjamin S. Bradley
  • The psychology of prenatal research : is there a future in behavioural observational research? / Nadja Reissland
  • Conversations with a two-day-old : a response to Trevarthen (1974) / Emese Nagy
  • The powerful effect of the neonatal moment of meeting : a new sense of connection of minds and a stronger attachment / Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern
  • Trevarthen's primary intersubjectivity : an appreciation and an elaboration / Alexandra Murray Harrison and Ed Tronick
  • Intersubjectivity : a unit of analysis for developmental psychology / R Peter Hobson
  • From intersubjectivity to atmosphere : insights from photography / Maya Gratier
  • The psychobiologist who taught musicians how to sing / Nigel Osborne
  • Play, tickling, and companionship / Koichi Negayama and Shigeru Nakano
  • Chatting with babies / David N. Lee and Benjaman Schögler
  • Therapeutic conversations : sharing and building communicative musicality / Stephen Malloch
  • How does vocal portamento differ from vocal glissando? a case study / Diana Gilchrist and others
  • The music of intersubjective interaction : distinguishing basic and higher-order empathies / Shaun Gallagher
  • The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the mirror neurone system / Lynne Murray and Pier Francesco Ferrari
  • Mirroring emotions and vitality forms / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia
  • Imitation as a synchronizer of minds and brains / Jacqueline Nadel
  • Empathy as developmental achievement / Mark Solms
  • Philosophical consideration of the metaphysics of intersubjectivity / Pauline Phemister
  • Neoteny, social practice, and meaning-making / Vittorio Gallese
  • Human vocal production learning : the nature and origin of our watershed adaptation / Bjorn Merker
  • Primary intersubjectivity, vocal turn taking coordination, and the development of language : an essay in honor of Colwyn Trevarthen / Beatrice Beebe and Herbert Terrace
  • Intersubjective conversations / Helen Marwick
  • The dance of emotions in infant semiolinguistic development : reflections on a relational research methodology to Colwyn / Ulrike M. Lüdtke and others
  • The artistic imagination of Colwyn Trevarthen : the poetry of newborn behaviour and early relationships / J. Kevin Nugent and others
  • Colwyn Trevarthen's theoretical ideas, vitality, and values : creating and sustaining VIG development / Hilary Kennedy and Raymond Simpson
  • Companionship versus care : bringing models of infancy into the study of adverse childhood experiences / Suzanne Zeedyk
  • Walking, affective ties, words, and play in an autistic child / Laurent Danon-Boileau and Maria Rhode
  • Amae and the theory of intersubjectivity : Trevarthen's contribution to the culturally aligned clinical interventions for Japanese families / Hisako Watanabe
  • Change the child or change the system? reflections on transitions in early childhood / Aline-Wendy Dunlop
  • Connected cooperative companionship grounds children's dance into morality / Darcia Narvaez
  • What do young children have to say? recognizing their wisdom, agency, and need for companionship in a time of crisis / Christine Pascal and Anthony Douglas Bertram
  • Universal harmony / Colwyn Trevarthen.