Surviving Space

by Briggs, Andrew; Meltzer, Donald

• ISBN13: 9781855752924
• ISBN10: 1855752921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

As part of the prestigious Tavistock Clinic Series, this is an essential addition to this highly-valued and innovative series. Infant observation is crucial to most psychotherapy training, and this work would be of obvious value to those commencing their training, as well as valuable insights for all psychotherapists.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
Foreword
The Life and Work of Esther Bick
Pioneering ideas: the papers of Esther Bick
Child analysis today [1962]	p. 27
Notes on infant observation in psycho-analytic training [1964]	p. 37
The experience of the skin in early object relations [1968]	p. 55
Further considerations on the function of the skin in early object relations [1986]	p. 60
Pushing at the boundaries
Three years of observation with Mrs Bick	p. 75
Mrs Bick and infant observation	p. 105
The relevance of infant and young-child observation in multidisciplinary assessments for the family courts	p. 117
Mrs Bick's contribution to the understanding of severe feeding difficulties and pervasive refusal	p. 135
Applying the observational method: observing organizations	p. 157
Secondary skin and culture: reflections on some aspects of teaching Traveller children	p. 172
Reflections on the function of the skin in psychosocial space	p. 188
The skin in early object relations revisited	p. 208
Whom does the skin belong to? Trauma, communication, and a sense of self	p. 226
Failures to link: attacks or defects, disintegration or unintegration?	p. 240
Looking in the right place: complexity theory, psychoanalysis, and infant observation	p. 256
Endpiece	p. 279
References	p. 283
Index	p. 297
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