Although, from Freud onwards, the central paradigm guiding analytic work has been that of the dream, the model of the mother-baby relationship has become, in its various forms, a reference point of almost equal importance as psychoanalysis has moved from a unipersonal psychology to a bipersonal or intersubjective psychology. But the baby, as conceived of (in both clinical and ‘theoretical’ terms) by psychoanalysis, is not always the same as the one which interests researchers using an experimental or observational approach to investigate the infantile world. Riva Crugnola's book seeks to bridge this gap, to integrate the psychoanalytic perspectives on this subject with infant research, attachment theory and also with some of the findings of neuroscience. For example, on the subject of neuroscience, the author makes reference to the discovery, by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese and their team, of the so-called ‘mirror-neurones’, an innate neuro-physiological mechanism which seems to form the basis of empathy and intersubjective