The relation between attachment, cooperation and intersubjectivity.
Saturday, 24th June 2017
Workshop: 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Mauricio Cortina
Implications for developmental psychology and clinical practice.
Intersubjective communication and sharing emerged as a new capacity among our hominid ancestors, forced by the need to cooperate during the history of our species. Selective forces favoring intersubjective communication (before language) and being able to “read” the minds of others (mentalization/ perspective taking abilities). A positive feedback loop began to operate between cooperative foraging among nomadic hunter gatherers, intersubjective communication and cooperative breeding — in which mothers let other members of the group help in feeding and caring for the young (the work of Sarah Hardy).