Daniel Stern, American psychologist and theorist (b. 1934)
Daniel N. Stern (August 16, 1934 – November 12, 2012) was a prominent American psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist, specializing in infant development, on which he had written a number of books — most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant (1985).Stern's 1985 and 1995 research and conceptualization created a bridge between psychoanalysis and research-based developmental models.