Infant Observation最新文献

{"title":"Beginnings, endings and transitions. Work with families in the perinatal period: the value of observation","authors":"Biddy Youell","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2023.2167733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2023.2167733","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the lifelong significance of beginnings, endings and transitions and the way in which early experience affects the individual's capacity to manage change, separation and loss. It draws on examples from infant observation and from a postgraduate course for the perinatal mental health workforce. It underlines the value of observation and reflects on the importance of beginnings and endings in professional practice.","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"123 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44237964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning from infant and young child observation. Enriching development of future psychoanalytic psychotherapists and other professionals","authors":"Trudy Klauber","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2192680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2192680","url":null,"abstract":"Psychoanalytic Infant Observation, Esther Bick’s wonderful idea, was designed, originally, as readers of this Journal will know, to support the learning and development of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists and, later of Psychoanalysts, starting with its introduction to the Tavistock Clinic in 1948. Bick, herself a brilliant observer of nonverbal behaviour and its possible meaning, wanted to encourage candidates for training in work with children, adolescents or adults to notice how much is always going on. She wanted them imaginatively to get the feel of another’s experience by quiet, focused ‘looking’. Getting the feel of the baby. In the paper, ‘Notes on Infant Observation,’ which Bick published in 1964 she argues that infant observation is an important preparation for analytic training. She explained how she felt that the observation of babies ‘ ...would help the students to conceive vividly the infantile experience of their child patients, so that when, for example, they started the treatment of a two-and-a-half-year-old child they would get the feel of the baby that he was and from which he is not so far removed’ (1964, 558). Observers were encouraged to recall and write down as much detail of what happened as they could remember. She wanted them to have a sense of what things were like for the baby in that observation and to make links with earlier observations which might or might not recur in subsequent presentations of the same baby and family. She looked for patterns over time and she wanted detail; lots of detail. Seeking meaning in what is noticed, imagined, constructed and repeated. Stephen Groarke in this Journal, (Groarke, 2011) describes the infant observation seminar, where observers take turns to present a detailed observation report as a gathering of ‘ ... an irreducible combination of the seen and the imagined’, where sense is made in a reconstruction worked out between observer, seminar leader and the other observers in the group. More understanding, formulation and reformulation takes place when the observer presents again, and the seminar leader and members continue to work on it. ‘When it works well the method engages the conscious and unconscious understanding of students and trainees... ’ (Groarke, 2011). This preparation for later clinical work sensitises the observers to what is unspoken and enriching as it is noticed, remembered and thought about, consciously, and unconsciously. The process is repeated with four or five weeks’ interval between presentations to the seminar for further discussion. In this way there is a ‘reaching for meaning’ over time in an interface between the observational setting and the classroom, according to Groarke (2011). Paying attention to unnoticed but remembered detail. A number of my colleagues, at the Tavistock, have described the usefulness of introducing short observation exercises to students enrolled on a number psychoanalytically-informed ‘mental health’","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"83 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42471119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor's Note about the group of Presentations and Commentaries","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2192681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2192681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"138 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42102898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Residential Nursery. Presentation of Louis Aurelie Bruguier-Huet, with Commentary by Trudy Klauber","authors":"Aurélie Bruguier-Huet","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2023.2184847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2023.2184847","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The boy I am describing is seen in a residential nursery where I have an office. I have worked as a psychologist for many years. I saw Louis there with one of the four carers who took turns to look after him each day. These are trained as Nursery nurses. The creation of my work setting is inspired by the Infant Observation as described by Esther Bick and developed later by Martha Harris for use in Work Discussion and Young Child Observation. My own baby observation has strengthened the observational roots of my work with the children. After each session, I had a conversation with the Nursery worker, who worked with me. I wrote up notes in as much detail as possible and I discusssed my notes with my personal supervisor as well as presenting for the pre-clinical observation course at Larmor Plage.","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"173 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42027957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clinical studies on parent–infant psychotherapy pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic ‘Making the best of a bad job’ (1)","authors":"Maria Pozzi Monzo","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2081590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2081590","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 In his last writing in 1979, Bion, aged 81, described how ‘when two personalities meet, an emotional storm is created’ and the way that psychotherapy can only ever aim to ‘make the best of a bad job’ by turning that storm between the two people in the room to good account. This paper, whose title refers to Bion’s famous statement, complements a publication by Micotti and Pozzi, on a literature review regarding this topic. The paper describes clinical vignettes from psychoanalytic psychotherapy with parents, infants and children underfive seen in person, then online, in a Specialist National Health Service. Some technical issues in the move from in-person to online work as well as its impact on families and therapists are highlighted here.","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"49 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48310012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychoanalytic perspectives on Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories","authors":"Agne Raneberg","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2094448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2094448","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tove Jansson (1914–2001), was a Swedish speaking Finn, a noted painter and writer, best known as the creator and author of the Moomin books which she illustrated herself. The first book in the series was published in 1945 in Finland. Since then, they have delighted many children and adult readers and gained the status of classics. Although the Moomins are especially well-known in the Nordic countries, they are also popular abroad and have been translated into many different languages. Moominvalley is both a familiar and magical place where the everyday and the incredible intertwine seamlessly to transport readers beyond the everyday to the realm of fairy tales and inner worlds. Deep structures of meaning can be found underlying the stories representing a delicate interplay between separateness and union, the tension between being seen and hidden, and integration of the self. This paper aims to examine how the stories evoke these inner processes and are depicted in the behaviours, moods and feelings of Moomin characters in the light of psychoanalytic theory, with particular reference to the work of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott.","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"16 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47713323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current preoccupations in infant observation","authors":"Trudy Klauber","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2114272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2114272","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue, Margaret Rustin’s paper, ‘Where are we now? Reflections on infant observation then and now’ (Rustin, 2022), reviews developments since the midto late 1960s when she herself began her training. She begins, naturally, with the fact that Esther Bick began infant observation, for child psychotherapy trainees at the Tavistock Clinic, 74 years ago in 1948 (interestingly the same year that the British National Health Service began). At the present time, in 2022, I have in mind two major themes in terms of developments in infant observation. One of them still predominates in articles submitted to Infant Observation; the impact of the Covid pandemic and the lockdowns which were imposed from early 2020 until 2021. The other theme, which I hope, over time, will be discussed in submissions to the journal, is the inclusion of thinking about diversity and difference in infant observation. This subject will be the theme of an international conference for infant and other observation teachers at the Tavistock Clinic in the summer of 2023. The impact of the pandemic and the periods of lockdown continue to appear in various ways in accounts of infant observations which took place during the past two years. Some began ‘in person’ and moved to online, using video, while other started online. One account of two observations published in our last issue described the observations of Iva Ajder and Lumley (2021) which had been fascinating ‘in person’ observations of two interesting babies and their mothers, but which had to finish after a few months online – a painful struggle for both the observers and the families and babies. Maria Pozzi Monzo, in this edition, offers an extremely interesting account of ‘making the best of a bad job’, in her article about continuing parent infant psychotherapy online during the lockdown in the UK. Her detailed clinical material and candid comments bring to life the difficulties of trying to work clinically with mothers and their small children on screen, and the worthwhile perseverance which she brought in offering sessions over longer time periods of time in order to be effective. All the cases which she reports demonstrate how important it was to be clinically flexible in such difficult times. An news article, which is an account from two infant observation teachers from Russia, Tayana Alexandrova andOlga Papsueva, published in this issue describes their struggles to keep something valued and valuable going during the pandemic in their country. Their account also draws our attention to a few glimpses of cultural difference. It seems that some observations are set up entirely by telephone before the observation itself begins. This is certainly unusual in the UK tradition. The article also provides glimpses of such characteristics of Russian family life such as the way the observer is greeted on arrival at the family’s apartment, which to western European eyes appears extremely formal. The authors state that Russian fami","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48466983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NEWS ARTICLE: Esther Bick’s method via video link: avoidance of contact or integration of modern technologies? Infant observation during the pandemic in Russia","authors":"T. Alexandrova, O. Papsueva","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2115642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2115642","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What distinguishes infant observation using a video link is the fact that it completely transforms the classical infant observation method, as the contact is established using smartphone camera and screen. The authors attempt to describe and analyse particular features video observation in some observers’ experience in Russia.","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"63 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48670635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parent Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems: Through the Night","authors":"Alexandra de Rementeria","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2101206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2101206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"78 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48371931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Looking to relate: observations of a proactive and resilient infant who, with the support of father’s nurturing, helped draw mother out of her unresponsive and disconnected state of mind","authors":"R. Monzo","doi":"10.1080/13698036.2022.2097117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698036.2022.2097117","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The author describes eleven months of observations of baby Meena, whose mother was unresponsive to and disconnected from her during the first five months of observations after the birth. The observations illustrate the key role and contribution of the baby’s individual temperament in the development of the relationship with the Mother. It is further argued that, in this family, Meena’s father nurtured her and her own proactivity and, critically, her capacity, resilience and motivation assisted in carrying over positive aspects of her relationship with her Father to the relationship with her Mother. This seemed helpful in bringing Mother out of her more cut-off state of mind. Meena and her Mother were able to go on to achieve a reciprocally responsive relationship. These factors also helped Meena not to withdraw or to give up on trying to connect with her mother, as do the infants of unresponsive mothers in the still-face studies [Weinberg, M. K., & Tronick, E. Z. (1996). Infant affective reactions to the resumption of maternal interaction after the still-face. Child Development, 67(3), 905–914. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131869]. The presence of the observer and the extended family’s attribution of intelligence and communicative intent to Meena, even in utero, are seen as part of her ‘facilitating environment’ [Winnicott, D. W. (2018). The maturational processes and the facilitating environment: Studies in the theory of emotional development. Routledge. first published in 1965 by the Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.].","PeriodicalId":38553,"journal":{"name":"Infant Observation","volume":"25 1","pages":"35 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44240670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}