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Title Developments in infant observation : the Tavistock model / edited by Susan Reid
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description xii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction: psychoanalytic infant observation / Susan Reid -- 2. Beginnings: the family, the observer and the infant observation group / Isca Wittenberg -- 3. Shared unconscious and conscious perceptions in the nanny-parent interaction which affect the emotional development of the infant / Jeanne Magagna -- 4. The meaning of difference: race, culture and context in infant observation / Lynda Ellis -- 5. First light: knowing the infant as an actuality and as an idea / Eric Rhode -- 6. Moments of discovery, times of learning / Alex Dubinsky and Olga Bazhenova -- 7. Thoughts on the containing process from the perspective of infant/mother relations / Pamela Berse Sorensen -- 8. Speculations on components in the infant's sense of agency: the sense of abundance and the capacity to think in parentheses / Anne Alvarez and Piera Furgiuele -- 9. Psychosomatic integrations: eye and mouth in infant observation / Maria Rhode -- 10. Interplay: sound-aspects in mother-infant observation / Suzanne Maiello -- 11. Observed families revisited - two years on: a follow-up study / Gertraud Diem-Wille -- 12. Observing when infants are at potential risk: reflections from a study of five infants, concentrating on observations of a Bengali infant / Stephen Briggs -- Endpiece / Susan Reid
Summary Twelve contributors bring academic theories relating to child development to life in this revealing study. Areas covered include: intergenerational child-rearing, nurture and nature, and the origins of emotional disturbance.
Notes Based on a Tavistock conference held in September 1993
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Child development -- Congresses.
Infant psychiatry -- Congresses.
Infant psychiatry.
Infant psychology -- Congresses.
Infant psychology.
Observation (Psychology)
Observation (Psychology) -- Congresses.
Child Development.
Child Development.
Mental Health.
Infant.
Child.
Genre/Form Congress.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Reid, Susan, 1946-
Tavistock Clinic.
International Conference on Infant Observation (1st : 1993 : London, England)
LC no. 96043621
ISBN 0415149401
041514941X (paperback)
(paperback)