Sue Gerhardt is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate for her work in educating the public about neuroscience and child development. She is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Why Love Matters, which explains how affection shapes a child’s brain in the first few months of life. Poignantly, she has also recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, a disease thought to have some of its roots in infancy.
Ambitious and wide-ranging, The Selfish Society reveals the vital importance of understanding our early emotional lives, arguing that by focusing on the attention we give to our young children we can... (more)
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and... (more)
We think of babyhood and old age as polar opposites on the spectrum of life. Yet they are profoundly linked. Our early experiences set us up for a lifetime of good mental and physical health, or for... (more)