[Affective attunement: division of emotional states between mother and child by cross-modal exchange].
From a rigorous clinical methodology, the author describes an interaction of a particular pattern between mother and child, the behavior of attunement, which appears around 8 months. It is a matching, more than an imitation, that is cross-modal, each partner using a mode of expression different, unconsciously the most often. The reference for the match is the internal state and not the external behavioral act. Attunement is felt like an unbroken process in the time and leads to define a new quality of feeling, vitality. The quality of the relation of attunement determines probably the ulterior level of the inter-subjective relatedness of the ability to "be-with", to share.
D002652:Child Behavior; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations
L'accordage affectif: le partage d'états émotionnels entre mère et enfant par échanges sur un mode croisé.