ABSTRACT
In recent years, interest in nonverbal behavior has been growing among psychotherapists of many different persuasions. There is generally greater appreciation of the enhanced understanding of human interaction offered by learning about and attending to the body in action.1 In this book, we seek to advance this point of view in three ways. First, and above all, we identify a language of movement description that makes observing the nonverbal more accessible to the clinical eye. Second, we show how, in the ˜rst year of life, nonverbal repertoires develop within parent-baby interactions and how knowledge of this process can vitally inform psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic work with parents and babies. Third, we elaborate this perspective to demonstrate how the patterns of nonverbal inter actions emerging in infancy continue to serve as the foundation of a person’s expressive interactive repertoire throughout life.
