Infant observation: creating transformative relationships

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. With a newly written substantial general introduction, and Esther Bick's central paper on infant observation, other authors include Jeanne Magagna, Anthony Cantle, Maggie Cohen, Juliet H.

Introduction to infant observation: an infant's inner world / Frances Thomson-Salo -- Infant observation in psycho-analytic training / Esther Bick -- Three years infant observation with Esther Bick / Jeanne Magagna -- A feeding observation: from breast to finger food! / Jane Blatt -- The dangers and deprivations of too-good mothering / Juliet Hopkins -- Premature twins on a neonatal intensive care unit / Margaret Cohen -- A therapeutic application of infant observation in child psychiatry / Didier Houzel -- The shadow of ending: a retrospective qualitative research study of mothers' experience of infant observation / Dimitra Bekos -- On-going physical trauma in an infant observation / Frances Thomson-Salo -- The mother-observer relationship: an examination of the participant role of the observer in mother-infant observation / Helga Coulter -- Maternal disavowal in the face of abuse of an infant by her sibling / Anthony Cantle -- Multiple mothering in an Indian context / Aiveen Bharucha -- Representations of mother in the daughter of a single, gay father / Sally Moskowitz -- Struggling with cultural prejudice while observing babies: socio-centric and egocentric positions / Graham M…