Heinz Werner and developmental science / edited by Jaan Valsiner.

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2005], ©2005.

xi, 439 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

General introduction : Developmental science in the making : the role of Heinz Werner / Jaan Valsiner -- Basic life course : Heinz Werner -- The context of the formation of Heinz Werner's ideas / Ulrich Müller -- Heinz Werner and the Psychological Institute in Hamburg / Kurt Kreppner -- The making of a developmental psychologist / René van der Veer -- Metaphor and perception / Leonard Cirillo -- Re-thinking development / Bernie Kaplan in interview with Ingrid E. Josephs and Sunil Bhatia -- The sensory-tonic field theory of perception / Seymour Wapner -- The Clark years : creating a culture / Jennifer M. Lane, Mariola Magovcevic and Becca K. Solomon -- Heinz Werner : mentor and mensch / Thomas B. Mulholland -- Werner : orthogenesis as life style / Irving Hurwitz -- Heinz Werner, my spiritual grandfather : a little giant with transparent blinders / Sandor Brent -- Feeling for others : Werner's interpersonal style / Robert Baker -- Personal experiences with Heinz Werner at Clark University / Arnold Miller -- Werner recollected / Leonard Cirillo -- Relating to Dr. Werner : past and present / Roger Bibace -- The theory of phenomenal psychology / Louis Carini -- Critical person-in-environment transitions across the life span / Seymour Wapner and Jack Demick -- The primate phylogeny of cognitive ontogeny / Jonas Langer -- Werner's developmental thought in the study of adult psychopathology / Marion Glick and Edward Zigler -- Heinz Werner : catalyst for a new way of understanding and treating children on the autism spectrum / Arnold Miller -- General synthesis : recurring agendas : integration of developmental science / Jaan Valsiner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.