致谢

非常感谢我们所有的撰稿人、众多的家庭、各种类型的儿童服务机构和幼儿园，感谢你们让各种观察得以收录到一起。

在准备本书原稿的过程中，我们得到了很多非常宝贵的支持。我们尤其要感谢休·库尔森（Sue Coulson）帮助翻译，感谢哈里·卡伊丹（Harry Caidan）帮助把许多手稿录入成电子版，感谢卡伦·坦纳（Karen Tanner）的支持，感谢凯特·斯特拉顿（Kate Stratton）在编辑和文献方面提供的帮助。

我们还要感谢泰勒（Taylor）和弗朗西斯（Francis）允许重新出版原先发表过的一些文章：“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)。

非常感谢罗漫娜·贝格里（Romana Begri）教授给我们提供了玛莎·哈里斯和唐纳德·梅尔策（Donald Meltzer）督导的录像带，本书第一章就是以此为基础撰写而成的。我们还想感谢《精神进化时代报纸》（ the Giornale di Neuropsichiatria dell’Età Evolutiva ），这一章最初是以意大利语发表的（1985，Vol. 5，No. 3:275-283）。

我们还非常感谢欧内斯托·塔塔菲奥雷（Ernesto Tatafiore）设计了精美的封面。最后，我们要感谢丛书编辑玛戈·沃德尔，感谢她一直给我们热情的支持和指导，还要感谢卡纳克（Karnac）团队的出色工作。