Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis: The Eyes of Shame - Paperback

by Mary Y. Ayers (Author)

Winner of the 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

The book argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflected look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is then internalised by the infant and reverberates through its later life.

Author Biography

Dr. Ayers is a Graduate of the University of Maryland School of Social Work, and received her PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. She currently divides her time between being a mother to her four children, and a private practice in the suburbs of Washington DC where she specialises in analytic work with children and adults.