Infant Observation

The vital importance of infant observation in psychoanalytic training, tracing influences on the practice of infant observation and contemporary developments. The book outlines the thinking that has evolved since Esther Bick's introduction of this innovative component in Tavistock child psychotherapy and British Psychoanalytical Society training.

Seminal and representative papers have been chosen to illustrate the vital importance of infant observation in psychoanalytic training, tracing influences on the practice of infant observation and contemporary developments. The book outlines the thinking that has evolved since Esther Bick's introduction of this innovative component in Tavistock child psychotherapy and British Psychoanalytical Society training.

Autorentext

Frances Thomson-Salo

Inhalt

Infant Observation , Introduction to infant observation: an infant's inner world , Infant observation in psycho-analytic training , Three years infant observation with Esther Bick , A feeding observation: from breast to finger food! , Significant Developments of Infant Observation as a Method within Psychoanalytic Training , The dangers and deprivations of too-good mothering , Premature twins on a neonatal intensive care unit , A therapeutic application of infant observation in child psychiatry 1 , Research in Infant Observation , The shadow of ending: a retrospective qualitative research study of mothers' experience of infant observation , Problematic Aspects of Infant Observation , On-going physical trauma in an infant observation , The mother-observer relationship: an examination of the participant role of the observer in mother-infant observation , Maternal disavowal in the face of abuse of an infant by her sibling , Developments of the Infant Observation Model , Multiple mothering in an Indian context , Representations of mother in the daughter of a single, gay father , Struggling with cultural prejudice while observing babies: socio-centric and egocentric positions , Afterword