Routledge - The First Year and the Rest of Your Life Book

Explore the foundational connection between early physical movement and lifelong communication. In this book, gestalt therapist Ruella Frank and psychoanalyst Frances La Barre examine how the movement repertoire developed during a child's first year serves as a unique language. This early motion conveys essential desires, intentions, and emotions that form the basis of nonverbal interaction. By studying these fundamental movement patterns, readers can better understand how early life in motion acts as the root for later verbal expression. This text provides the necessary tools to recognize the logic within the nonverbal realm and explains how observations of movement between babies and parents serve as vital cues for development. It is a significant resource for those studying the relationship between physical development and psychotherapeutic change.