Acknowledgments -- How we got here : a roadmap to psychoanalytic theories of childhood and development -- Childhood has meaning of its own : freud and the invention of psychoanalysis -- A. freud's legacy for developmental psychoanalysis: childhood at the origins -- B. real women and children : the emergence of child psychoanalysis -- Theory i: foreshadowings : core themes and controversies in the early freudian theories -- The baby at the crossroads : the structural model, ego psychology, and object relations theories -- A. ego psychology : psychic structure, adaptation, and external realities -- B. kleinian psychoanalysis : internal objects, phantasies, and the centrality of the infantile primitive mind -- The middle group : toward a relationship-based theory of psychic realities and environments -- Theory ii: what is a "robust developmental perspective?"--The postwar diversification and pluralization of psychoanalysis in the united states: interdisciplinary expansion, the widening clinical scope and the new developmentalism -- The relational baby : intersubjectivity and infant development -- Infancy research : toward a relational-developmental psychoanalysis -- Clinical implications of infancy research : affect, interaction and non-verbal meaning in the dyadic field -- Theory iii: the relational baby : psychoanalytic theory and technique -- Continuities from infancy to adulthood : the baby is out of the bathwater -- Theory iv: the move to the maternal : gender, sexualities, and the oedipus complex in light of intersubjective developmental research -- Attachment and recognition in clinical process : reflection, regulation and emotional security -- Intersubjectivity today : the orientation and concept -- Attachment theory and research in context : clinical implications -- Recognition and mentalization in infancy and psychotherap y: convergences of attachment theory and psychoanalysis -- Mentalization and metaphor, acknowledgement and grief : forms of transformation in the reflective space -- Infant-parent interactions, phantasies, and an "internal two-person psychology" : projective identification and the intergenerational transmission of early trauma in kleinian theory and intersubjective infant research -- Vitality, activity, and communication in development and psychotherapy -- Coming to life in time : temporality, early deprivation, and the sense of a lively future -- Forms of vitality and other integrations : daniel stern's contribution to the psychoanalytic core -- Awareness, confusion and uncertainty : nonlinear dynamics in everyday practice -- Feeling puzzled while paying attention : the analytic mindset as an agent of therapeutic change -- Dynamic systems theories as a basic framework for psychoanalysis : change processes in development and therapeutic action -- Searching for core principles : louis sander's synthesis of biological, psychological, and relational factors and contemporary developmental psychodynamics