A Spirit of Inquiry : Routledge : 9780881633641 : 088163364X : 12 Nov 2002 : Thoroughly grounded in contemporary developmental research, A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in verbal an nonverbal modes.  Via the uniquely human capacity for speech, the authors hold, intercommunication deepens into a continuous process of listening to, sensing into, and deciphering motivation-driven messages.  The analytic exchange is unique owing to a broad communicative repertoire that encompasses all the permutations of day-to-day exchanges.  It is the spirit of inquiry that endows such communicative moments with an overarching sense of purpose and thereby permits analysis to become an intimate relationship decisively unlike any other.   In elucidating the special character of this relationship, the authors refine their understanding of mo