- Published: 06/04/2009
- ISBN: 9781847080745
- 129x20mm
- 288 pages
The Baby In The Mirror
Charles Fernyhough
For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the detailed notes he made during her infancy, Fernyhough uses Athena’s story to explain how a child’s mind develops before the age of three, tapping into a parent’s wonder at the processes of psychological development in an engaging, child-centred way. It is written with a father’s tenderness and a novelist’s empathy and style.
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[A] tender, beautifully written account ... Fernyhough provides an accessible, jargon-free guide to the basis and development of language, consciousness and autonomy
The Scotsman
A triumph of informed imagination and a startling testament of love
Sunday Telegraph
Fernyhough's source material is diverse and eclectic ... a hymn to a child from a loving father