Ontological completion in the adult-infant system

Delafield-Butt, Jonathan (2018) Ontological completion in the adult-infant system. PsyArXiv Preprints.

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    Abstract

    In this paper I explore the ontology of the mother-infant system to define moments of physiological and psychological co-operation that form one entity for the completion of 'units of process'. These moments of coupling between mother and infant form ontological wholes with shared consciousness. For example, in the case of extreme, acute neonatal anxiety a process is initiated by the infant requiring co-regulation with an adult other. The adult other provides closure to the process of anxiety, giving ontological completeness to the process. This process of initiation, build, climax, and closure is illustrated by the infant’s vocal cry, which parallels the regulatory process. The need for another in this particular processual unit demonstrates the infant in this event is not a distinct entity, but is embedded in a parent-infant system that together forms one unified whole.

    Author(s):Delafield-Butt, Jonathan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8881-8821
    Item type:Article
    ID code:66879
    Keywords:process ontology, process metaphysics, intersubjectivity, mother-infant dyad, shared consciousness, infant anxiety, containment, Child Health. Child health services, Developmental and Educational Psychology
    Subjects:Medicine > Pediatrics > Child Health. Child health services
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education
    Strategic Research Themes > Health and Wellbeing
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:08 Feb 2019 14:46
    Last modified:16 Oct 2019 03:08
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66879
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