When I teach students in the relatively new discipline of infant mental health, which brings together researchers at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience, and genetics, I tell them that almost everything they need to know to support young children and their families can be found in the
essay «The
Ordinary Devoted Mother» by pediatrician
turned psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott.
Varda quickly realized that filming was also an act of «gleaning» and soon
turned what might have been an
ordinary documentary into a delightful personal
essay, filled with her own thoughts and musings.