ABSTRACT
Many contemporary therapists have shifted from one-person to two-person psychologies. Allan Schore (1997, 2003b) illustrates this difference visually by placing a portrait of Freud alongside Mary Cassatt’s painting, Baby’s First Caress. Freud’s picture reveals the “icon of a monad, a single unit; an adult, conscious, reflective mind attempting to understand the realm of the dynamic unconscious that forms in early childhood; a man’s face gazing inward; a representation for a paternal-oedipal psychology” (2003b: 3). By contrast Cassatt’s work, also gracing the cover of Daniel Stern’s landmark book, The interpersonal world of the infant (1985), symbolizes “a dyad, two interlocking units; gazes between two faces, one of an adult female, the other of an infant, a representation of a maternal-preoedipal psychology” (Schore, 2003b: 3).
