Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Tessa Baradon initiated the Parent Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre and leads on the training in psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy at the Centre. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, School of Human and Community Development, and consults on parent-infant psychotherapy service development and training in different settings. She writes and lectures on applied psychoanalysis and parent-infant psychotherapy.

• DedicationEditor and Contributor BiographiesPREFACE, Tessa BaradonAcknowledgements A JOURNEY INTO FATHERHOOD: THE ART OF FAILING GRACEFULLYDickon Bevington THE ROLE OF FATHERS IN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENTKai von Klitzing "THE DOOR IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD": A FATHER’S FAILURE TO MOURN THE DEATHS OF HIS PARENTSAngela Joyce WAKING DADDY UP: RESTORING A FATHER’S PLACE IN A BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER COUPLE Alejandra Perez WHEN WORKING THERAPEUTICALLY WITH A BABY’S FATHER IS NOT POSSIBLEAmanda Jones PATERNAL ORIENTATIONS AND THE ART OF BEING A FATHERJoan Raphael-Leff WORKING WITH THE TRIADTessa Baradon THE MALE THERAPIST IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPYAbel Fagin THE THERAPIST AND THE FATHER IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPYYael Segal WORKING WITH COUPLES AS PARENTS AND PARENTS AS COUPLESLouise Emanuel CAN THE DIFFICULTIES OF CARRYING OUT THE PATERNAL FUNCTION FOR A TODDLER BE IDENTIFIED FROM THE EARLIEST MONTHS OF A BABY’S LIFE?Marie-Christine Laznik FREUD ON FATHERS: WHO CARES?Björn Salomonsson THREE THEMES ABOUT FATHERS IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPYBjörn Salomonsson, Tessa Baradon and Kai von Klitzing AND WHAT ABOUT MOTHERS? Tessa BaradonBibliographyIndex

"Each baby finds itself in a triad, developing relationships to a father and a mother, regardless if they are present or absent. Roles and representations of mother and fatherhood and real interactions with parental figures shape the developmental world of babies. Each psychoanalytically active person carries representations of father, mother and the family triad in their mind, influencing their work. A foursome, including the therapist as an ‘outsider within’, characterizes psychoanalytic parent-infant-psychotherapy. This wonderful volume, featuring contributions from very experienced authors, opens-up the mind of all protagonists during psychoanalytic processes with families and transmits fresh views and models of integration of maternal and paternal functions."- Prof. em. Dr. med. Dieter Bürgin, Traininganalyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society