The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Claiming the Baby

Tessa Baradon, Michela Biseo, Carol Broughton, Jessica James, Angela Joyce

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138792784
• eBook ISBN: 9781317613879
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a comprehensive handbook, addressing the provision of therapeutic help for babies and their parents when their attachment relationship is troubled and a risk is posed to the baby's development. Drawing on clinical and research data from neuroscience, attachment and psychoanalysis, the book presents a clinical treatment approach that is up-to-date, flexible and sophisticated, whilst also being clear and easy to understand.

The first section: The theory of psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy – offers the reader a theoretical framework for understanding the emotional-interactional environment within which infant development takes place. 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.

This new edition draws on evidence from contemporary research, with new material on:

• Embodied communication between parent and infant and clinician-patient/s
• Fathers and fathering
• Engagement of at-risk populations

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 will be an essential resource for all professionals working with children and their families, including child psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinical and developmental psychologists.

Index

AAI. See Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)

abandonment issues/feelings 106–107

absences, from therapy 106–107. See also dropout

acting out. See enactment

Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), 81

affect, negative 52, 89. See also emotional dis/regulation; security feelings

affective/behavioural risk factor 116

Ainsworth, Mary 20

ambivalence, to parenting 23

annihilation anxiety 8

anxiety 8–9, 26

arousal state: contagious viii; vigilant 26, 28, 68

assessing problem, observation of infant 76–77

attachment. See also object relations: case study 164–165; disorganized 185–186; Down syndrome 19; and early development 6, 7; and emotional regulation 69; group as attachment object 147–148; insecure 38; patterns, parental 7, 68–69; promoting positive 37; theory 3, 53

attention, joint 10, 18

attribution, parental 90, 116. See also projection

attunement, fostering parent-infant 21–22, 99, 148

avoidance, defensive 8–9; in end-phase of therapy 128–129, 134–135; gaze avoidance 8, 95

awareness, parental: infant needs 116–117, 119; states of mind 36

babies. See infant/s

Beebe, B. 177, 185

beginning-phase, group work. See also engagement: boundaries 140; establishing baby in group 143–144; preparing group for newcomers 142–143; preparing new member for group work 141–142; setting 141

beginning-phase, individual/family therapy 67. See also engagement; aims 70–71; assessing capacity for change 83–84; confidentiality/secrecy 72; end of initial phase 86; establishing baby as partner 77–79; first session 75–77; intake process 71–73; preliminary psychodynamic formulation 84–85; risk assessment 84; therapist’s role, summary 86; treatment, agreeing 85–86

belonging, by fathers 111–112

birth 14–15, 18–19

Biseo, Michela 161

body language. See communication

body memories 12

borderline personality disorder 8, 60

boundaries, setting: cross...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Key Terms
• Section I The Theory of Psychoanalytic Parent–Infant Psychotherapy
• Chapter 1 The Parent–Infant Relationship and Infant Mental Health
• Chapter 2 The Theory of Psychoanalytic Parent–Infant Psychotherapy
• Chapter 3 The Clinical Framework and Participants
• Chapter 4 The therapist and therapeutic techniques
• Section II The Therapeutic Process
• Chapter 5 Parent–Infant Psychotherapy
• Chapter 6 The Middle Phase
• Chapter 7 Fathers
• Chapter 8 Consideration of Risk in the Parent–Infant Relationship
• Chapter 9 Endings in Parent–Infant Psychotherapy
• Chapter 10 Parent–Infant Psychotherapy in Groups
• Section III Clinical Papers
• Chapter 11 Finding Father Through the Regulating Function of the Parent–Infant Psychotherapist
• Chapter 12 Knowing and Being Known
• References
• Index