Descartes' Baby helped me with a huge break-through in my therapy... The discussion of the development of mind reading really boggled my brain and this is why. Children before the age of two, before they can even speak, can understand that other people have desires. Not only can babies understand their own likes and dislikes they empathize with others. This creeps me out because before children have the vocabulary to tell their parents to not pass their personal baggage, and set up healthy boundaries, babies are empathizing with their parents. Before the development of language babies are sorting through transitions by their feelings. I am sure all of my personal emotional "crap" that I don't know where it came from can be traced to my development of "mind reading" my parents.
