致謝

非常感謝我們所有的撰稿人、眾多的家庭、各種類型的兒童服務機構和幼兒園，感謝你們讓各種觀察得以收錄到一起。

在準備本書原稿的過程中，我們得到了很多非常寶貴的支持。我們尤其要感謝休·庫爾森（Sue Coulson）幫助翻譯，感謝哈里·卡伊丹（Harry Caidan）幫助把許多手稿錄入成電子版，感謝卡倫·坦納（Karen Tanner）的支持，感謝凱特·斯特拉頓（Kate Stratton）在編輯和文獻方面提供的幫助。

我們還要感謝泰勒（Taylor）和弗朗西斯（Francis）允許重新出版原先發表過的一些文章：“Infant Observation: International Journal of Infant Observation and Its Applications: Simonetta M. G. Adamo &Margaret Rustin (2001)”, Editorial (Vol 4, No. 2: 3-22); Isca Wittenberg(2001), “The transition from home to nursery school” (Vol. 4, No. 2:23-35); Donald Meltzer & Martha Harris (2001), “The story of child development—a psychoanalytic account” (Vol. 4, No. 2: 36-50); Simonetta M. G. Adamo & Jeanne Magagna (1998), “Oedipal anxieties, the birth of a second baby and the role of the observer” (Vol. 1, No. 2: 5-25); Sharon Warden (2001), “The day Captain Antonio’s balloon burst” (Vol. 4, No. 2:68-79); Claudia Henry (2001), “Laurie and his cars: A three year old starts to separate” (Vol. 4, No. 3: 87-95); Simonetta M. G. Adamo (2001), “Theobserved child, the observing child: The complexity of a child’s response to the still birth of a sibling” (Vol. 4, No. 2: 80-106); Elisabeth Dennis (2001),“Seeing beneath the surface: An observer’s encounter with a child’s struggle to find herself at nursery” (Vol. 4, No. 2: 107-120); Elizabeth Taylor Buck& Margaret Rustin (2001), “Thoughts on transitions between cultures:Jonathon moves from home to school and from class to class”(Vol. 4, No.2: 121-133); Simonetta M. G. Adamo (2001), “The house is a boat…: The experience of separation in a nursery school” (Vol. 4, No. 2: 134-139);Deborah Blessing & Karen Block (2009), “Sewing on a shadow: Acquiring dimensionality in a participant-observation” (Vol. 12, No. 1: 21-28); Anna Burhouse (2001), “Now we are two, going on three: Triadic thinking and its link with development in the context of young child observation” (Vol. 4, No.2: 51-67)。

非常感謝羅漫娜·貝格里（Romana Begri）教授給我們提供了瑪莎·哈里斯和唐納德·梅爾策（Donald Meltzer）督導的錄像帶，本書第一章就是以此為基礎撰寫而成的。我們還想感謝《精神進化時代報紙》（the Giornale di Neuropsichiatria dell’Età Evolutiva），這一章最初是以意大利語發表的（1985，Vol. 5，No. 3:275-283）。

我們還非常感謝歐內斯托·塔塔菲奧雷（Ernesto Tatafiore）設計了精美的封面。最后，我們要感謝叢書編輯瑪戈·沃德爾，感謝她一直給我們熱情的支持和指導，還要感謝卡納克（Karnac）團隊的出色工作。