Editorial: Intersubjectivity: recent advances in theory, research, and practice

TY - JOUR

T1 - Editorial

T2 - Intersubjectivity: recent advances in theory, research, and practice

AU - Kokkinaki, Theano

AU - Delafield-Butt, Jonathan

AU - Nagy, Emese

AU - Trevarthen, Colwyn

N1 - Copyright: © 2023 Kokkinaki, Delafield-Butt, Nagy and Trevarthen.

PY - 2023/6/12

Y1 - 2023/6/12

N2 - Intersubjectivity describes the awareness of self and other's intentions and feelings in the dynamic sharing of minds acting in companionship, exchanging self-conscious intentions and emotional evaluations. Since 1960, when studies of infants disproved the theory of the young mind as a sensory-motor computer that is “conditioned” to learn facts symbolized in language, psychology now highlights the natural science of infant awareness, intelligence, intentions, and emotions and their sharing in embodied, non-verbal participation with others. This has fundamental implications for support of children's health, growth and learning in Psychology, Education, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and for mental health of infants, parents and teachers. It has strong confirmation by recent functional brain science. In this Research Topic entitled “Intersubjectivity: recent advances in theory, research, and practice,” we advance the science of intersubjectivity by bringing together new empirical studies, review, hypothesis and theory papers with advanced scholarship on the early emergence of human consciousness.

AB - Intersubjectivity describes the awareness of self and other's intentions and feelings in the dynamic sharing of minds acting in companionship, exchanging self-conscious intentions and emotional evaluations. Since 1960, when studies of infants disproved the theory of the young mind as a sensory-motor computer that is “conditioned” to learn facts symbolized in language, psychology now highlights the natural science of infant awareness, intelligence, intentions, and emotions and their sharing in embodied, non-verbal participation with others. This has fundamental implications for support of children's health, growth and learning in Psychology, Education, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and for mental health of infants, parents and teachers. It has strong confirmation by recent functional brain science. In this Research Topic entitled “Intersubjectivity: recent advances in theory, research, and practice,” we advance the science of intersubjectivity by bringing together new empirical studies, review, hypothesis and theory papers with advanced scholarship on the early emergence of human consciousness.

KW - intersubjectivity

KW - interbrain synchronization

KW - embodied meaning-making

KW - dyadic states of consciousness

KW - loneliness

KW - very premature birth

KW - autism spectrum disorders

KW - psychoanalytic developmental theory

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85163670837

U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1220161

DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1220161

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 37377698

SN - 1664-1078

VL - 14

JO - Frontiers in Psychology

JF - Frontiers in Psychology

M1 - 1220161

ER -