Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781855754584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 251 str.

Maria Pozzi; Beverley Tydeman

Opis

This book has emerged from the editors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world.

This collection, in its innovative way, develops the psychoanalytic model of working with parents, infants, and small children. It brings together papers from around the world and is written by experienced clinicians, who have a psychodynamic framework and all of whom believe in the importance of early emotional experiences in the development of the personality within the context of family relationships. The vivid detail of the clinical vignettes brings to life intimate stories of the therapeutic process, either from the consulting room of those in private practice, or in the public sector including projects in community settings where traditional psychoanalytic ideas are applied flexibly. The case histories span individual work with various combinations: mothers alone, mothers and babies with or without fathers, families, and mother and baby groups.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Summary -- Introduction -- Looking at the symptoms as a starting point for understanding -- Echoes from overseas: Brazilian experiences in psychoanalytic observation, its developments, and therapeutic interventions with parents and small children -- Multidisciplinary early intervention with infants and young children presenting emotional, physical, and speech difficulties -- Brief mother-father-infant psychodynamic psychotherapy: clinical and technical aspects -- The role of the infant in parent-child psychotherapies -- Therapeutic consultation: early detection of “alarm symptoms” in infants and treatment with parent-infant psychotherapy -- Transformational process in parent-infant psychotherapy: provision in community drop-in groups -- Babies in groups: the creative roles of the babies, the mothers, and the therapists -- Parent-infant psychotherapy: when feelings of futility are prevalent -- The health visitor’s role in promoting well being in families -- “It wasn’t meant to happen like this”: the complexity of mourning great expectations -- Ten years of parent-infant psychotherapy in a township in South Africa. What have we learnt? -- Innovation in parent-infant psychotherapy in Japan: the infant reveals family trauma

O autorze

Maria Pozzi Monzo, Beverley Tydeman