Culture, Schooling, and Psychological Development: A Sociocultural and
                        Historical Developmental Perspective

Andrés Barona; Michael Tansy

doi:10.1037/032977

Culture, Schooling, and Psychological Development: A Sociocultural and Historical Developmental Perspective

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/032977 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 85-86

Author(s):

Andrés Barona ◽

Michael Tansy

Keyword(s):

Psychological Development ◽

Developmental Perspective

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The Birth of the Infant: a Developmental Perspective

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology ◽

10.1163/156916281x00245 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 205-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Frederick J. Wertz

Keyword(s):

Newborn Infant ◽

Developmental Psychology ◽

Psychological Development ◽

Developmental Perspective ◽

Single Event ◽

Birth Process ◽

Psychological Structure ◽

Developmental Transformation ◽

Psychological Birth

AbstractPsychological birth is not a single event but occurs again and again throughout one's life. A new psychological structure is bom in each developmental transformation of a person's existence. But what about "biological birth" or what we will call the bodily birth of the infant? Does this involve psychological development? It is not taken up in this way by developmental psychology, which usually begins with the newborn infant Some psychologists have even argued that when an infant leaves the mother's uterus, he is bom biologically but not yet psychologically. In the following paper we will take this view as problematic and address to it a description of the birth process based on the perceptive observations of Frederick Leboyer. Appropriating some of Kegan's notions regarding psychological development,' we will reflect upon the . phenomenon of being bom psychologically. In other words, we will investigate whether and in what sense being bom can be seen as a phenomenon involving psychological development.

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