The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Claiming the Baby

by Baradon; Tessa

• ISBN13: 9781583917619
• ISBN10: 1583917616
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This comprehensive handbook addresses the provision of therapeutic help for babies and their parents when their attachment relationship is derailed and a risk is posed to the baby's development. Drawing on clinical and research data from the biological and psychological sciences, this book presents a treatment approach that is comprehensive, flexible and sophisticated, whilst also being clear and easy to understand. The first section, The Theory of Parent Infant Psychotherapy,offers the reader a theoretical framework for understanding the emotional-interactional environment within which infant development takes place. It draws upon psychoanalysis, attachment and developmental research to describe how babies' minds and development are sculpted by the dynamics of the relationship with their primary love figures. The second section, The Therapeutic Process,invites the reader into the consulting room to participate in a detailed examination of the relational process in the clinical encounter. The third section, Clinical Papers,provides case material to illustrate the unfolding of the therapeutic process. Written by a team of experienced clinicians, writers, teachers and researchers in the field of infant development and psychopathology, The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy,is unique in its systematic approach to describing the theoretical rationale and clinical process of therapy. It will be of great interest to all professionals working with children and their families, including child psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinical and developmental psychologists.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Joan Raphael-Leff
Preface	xi
Tessa Baradon
Contributors	xv
Acknowledgements	xvii
Key terms	xviii
Angela Joyce
Tessa Baradon
SECTION I The theory of parent--infant psychotherapy	1	(64)
Introduction	3	(2)
Angela Joyce
The parent--infant relationship and infant mental health	5	(20)
Angela Joyce
The theory of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy	25	(16)
Tessa Baradon
Angela Joyce
The clinical framework	41	(16)
Tessa Baradon
Key techniques of intervention	57	(8)
Tessa Baradon
SECTION II The therapeutic process	65	(84)
Introduction	67	(2)
Tessa Baradon
Parent--infant psychotherapy: engaging and beginning the work	69	(18)
Iris Gibbs
The middle phase: elaboration and consolidation	87	(21)
Carol Broughton
Endings in parent--infant psychotherapy	108	(19)
Judith Woodhead
Analytic group psychotherapy with mothers and infants	127	(22)
Jessica James
SECTION III Clinical papers	149	(49)
Introduction	151	(1)
Tessa Baradon
A brief intervention in the form of a therapeutic consultation	152	(11)
Angela Joyce
Formulations of change in parent--infant psychotherapy	163	(14)
Tessa Baradon
Carol Broughton
Shifting triangles: images of father in sequences from parent--infant psychotherapy	177	(10)
Judith Woodhead
Developing a culture for change in group analytic psychotherapy for mothers and babies	187	(11)
Jessica James
References	198	(8)
Index	206