Ed Tronick
Developmental and clinical psychologist
Ed Tronick is a developmental and clinical psychologist who developed the Still-Face paradigm. He co-wrote The Power of Discord with pediatrician Claudia Gold.
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About Ed Tronick
Ed Tronick co-founded the Child Development Unit at Boston Children's Hospital. He also co-founded the Touchpoints Program with T. Berry Brazelton. He is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Research Associate in Newborn Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also directs the Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program at UMass Boston, which has trained over 500 practitioners from many countries. His output includes five books and over 450 research papers, covering topics such as infant neuro-behavior and cross-cultural parenting practices. In The Power of Discord, written with Claudia Gold, he argues that working through the messiness of relationships matters for social and emotional development.