Infant Observation

Frances Thomson-Salo

• 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