Developments in Infant Observation

Susan Reid is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Senior Tutor in Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic, London. She is currently engaged in research in autism and is co-director of a pilot research project on infant observation.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Susan Reid; Part I The practice of infant observation; Chapter 2 Beginnings, Isca Wittenberg; Chapter 3 Shared unconscious and conscious perceptions in the nanny-parent interaction which affect the emotional development of the infant, Jeanne Magagna; Chapter 4 The meaning of difference, Lynda Ellis; Part II Theoretical developments; Chapter 5 First light, Eric Rhode; Chapter 6 Moments of discovery, times of learning, Alex Dubinsky, Olga Bazhenova; Chapter 7 Thoughts on the containing process from the perspective of infant/mother relations, Pamela Berse Sorensen; Chapter 8 Speculations on components in the infant’s sense of agency, Anne Alvarez, Piera Furgiuele; Chapter 9 Psychosomatic integrations Eye and mouth in infant observation, Maria Rhode; Chapter 10 Interplay, Suzanne Maiello; Part III Research developments; Chapter 11 Observed families revisited – two years on, Gertraud Diem-Wille; Chapter 12 Observing when infants are at potential risk, Stephen Briggs;

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