The Cradle of Thought

"Professor Hobson draws on twenty years of clinical experience and academic research as a development psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He follows the thread of mental development over the first eighteen months of a baby's life to describe and to explain the emergence of thinking; he shares startling insights into mental development gained from his studies of autism; and he shows how, from infancy to adulthood, disturbances of thinking may be rooted in troubled early relationships. Finally, he pinpoints tiny but momentous changes in the social relations of pre-human primates from which human thought sprang."--BOOK JACKET.