The Tavistock model: papers on child development and psychoanalytic training

'This is a new edition of Mattie Harris's papers together with two of Mrs Bick's. The papers span sixteen years of development. They illustrate the conviction that detailed observation, especially as taught by Mrs Bick, is the basis of learning about emotional life. Thus the first few papers, while ostensibly describing the training of a child psychotherapist, are actually a guideline for learning about one's own emotional experience and hence of becoming a person. Mattie was very much inspired by Melanie Klein's teaching but was aware of the basic assumption groupings that arise, both interna.

Revised edition of: Collected papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick. 1987.

1. The Tavistock training and philosophy (1977) -- 2. The individual in the group: on learning to work with the psychoanalytical method (1978) -- 3. Bion's conception of a psychoanalytical attitude (1980) -- 4. The place of once-weekly treatment in the equipment of a psychoanalytically trained child psychotherapist (1971) -- 5. Growing points in psycho-analysis inspired by the work of Melanie Klein (1982) -- 6. Esther Bick,1901-1983 (1983) -- 7. Notes on infant observation in psychoanalytic training by Esther Bick (1964) -- 8. The contribution of observation of mother-infant interaction and development to the equipment of a psycho-analyst of psychoanalytic psychotherapist (1976) -- 9. The experience of the skin in early object relations by Esther Bick (1968) -- 10. Some notes on maternal containment in "good enough" mothering (1975) -- 11. A baby observation: the absent object (1980) -- 12. Towards learning from experience in infancy and childhood (1978) -- 13. The early basis of adult female sexuality and motherliness (1975) -- 14. Child analysis today by Esther Bick (1962) -- 15. The therapeutic process in the psychoanalytic treatment of the child (c.1968) -- 16. The complexity …