Product Description

The book that applies Dr. Greenspan's developmental theories to a child's everyday life-with practical, delightful, deeply insightful observations and advice.

Every parent wants to raise a bright, happy, and moral child, but until Stanley Greenspan investigated the building blocks of cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, no one could show parents how and when these qualities begin. In this book Dr. Greenspan, the internationally admired child psychiatrist, identifies the six key experiences that enable children to reach their full potential. In Building Healthy Minds, he draws upon discoveries made in his research and practice as he describes the many ways in which games, fantasy play, and conversations with and without words encourage this development. No one has looked so deeply into the very earliest stages of human development, and no other book makes such vital and effective information available to every parent.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #370745 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
"A wake-up call about the emotional origins of intellectual development." -- Science Books and Films

"An exciting aspect of Greenspan's new work is its synthesis of developmental psychology with new insights derived from genetics and brain physiology." -- Psychiatric News

"Delight with, and dedication to, families shines through on every page." -- Contemporary Psychology

"Greenspan generously shares his insights....which are brilliant and exciting.... a clear guide to the early stages of emotional development." -- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

"Groundbreaking work by a leading researcher, theoretician, and clinical psychoanalyst." -- Otto Kernberg, M.D.

"Optimistic and reassuring." -- Los Angeles Times

"Takes its place among recent writing such as Gardner's Frames of Mind, Damasio's Descartes' Error.... A wealth of examples from clinical practice...absorbing reading." -- Washington Post Book World

About the Author
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders. He is also a practicing child psychiatrist, and founding president of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. His many influential books include The Growth of the Mind, The Challenging Child, Infancy and Early Childhood, First Feelings, and The Child with Special Needs.

Customer Reviews

Huge Contributor To Our Parenting Success
This was the #1 most helpful book with our parenting. Agree with all the positive reviews.
As for the negatives, yes, it is intuitive to a certain extent, but how often have you questioned your own judgement? Is it always right? And what about people for whom 'obvious' parenting does not come naturally? Nice to get the affirmation on the behavior that does work!
Also, of course it's repetitive to a degree. By definition, growth is building so you'd have to re-establish the baseline definition of an early phase to adequately compare the later one.
Also, and perhaps most helpful about this book, there are hundreds of specific examples of how you can promote healthy growth for each stage and you do have to read thoroughly and carefully to get them. A table-of-contents review would be missing 2/3 of the most useful info in the book.
I hope you buy and enjoy as much as we did. It's been immensely helpful to us and we can't recommend it enough!

Great book!!!!!!!!!!
Really interesting reading. It helped me with my 4-year-old development. I highly recommend it!!!!

A lot of this advise seems intuitive
This book offers what seems like sound advise, however, for me, it all seemed intuitive. All the suggestions on how to interact with your baby, I was already doing. So there wasn't a lot to disagree with, but there wasn't a lot of eye opening info either. This may be better for parents who are dealing with a colicky infant or an infant who has trouble engaging with the world due to sensitivities. I didn't have these problems with my daughter. I would check this book out of the library versus adding it to my personal library.