Sections
Developing Self-Value While Engaging in Transactional
Relationships With Others | Developing a Sense of Separateness | The Attachment Relationship | The Triadic Attachment Relationship | Phases in the Attachment Relationship
Excerpt
Perhaps the most important social function parents must fulfill
is that of instilling within their infants self-esteem. This self-esteem
is developed in a nurturant arena in which infants are given the
physical space and an interesting and novel environment in which
to perform and produce (Greenspan 1996). While the
parents are fulfilling this and other social functions, they are
operating as selfobjects.