Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

by Maria Pozzi Monzo (Editor), Beverley Tydeman (Editor)

Overview

This book has emerged from the authors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Europe, South Africa and the United States. It shows how the therapy connects with the culture of the family inspired by the wider community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855754584
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/25/2007
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Pozzi Monzo, Beverley Tydeman

Table of Contents

Foreword — Summary — Introduction — Looking at the symptoms as a starting point for understanding — Echoes from overseas: Brazilian experiences in psychoanalytic observation, its developments, and therapeutic interventions with parents and small children — Multidisciplinary early intervention with infants and young children presenting emotional, physical, and speech difficulties — Brief mother-father-infant psychodynamic psychotherapy: clinical and technical aspects — The role of the infant in parent-child psychotherapies — Therapeutic consultation: early detection of “alarm symptoms” in infants and treatment with parent-infant psychotherapy — Transformational process in parent-infant psychotherapy: provision in community drop-in groups — Babies in groups: the creative roles of the babies, the mothers, and the therapists — Parent-infant psychotherapy: when feelings of futility are prevalent — The health visitor’s role in promoting well being in families — “It wasn’t meant to happen like this”: the complexity of mourning great expectations — Ten years of parent-infant psychotherapy in a township in South Africa. What have we learnt? — Innovation in parent-infant psychotherapy in Japan: the infant reveals family trauma

Editorial Reviews

This book describes an amazing variety of innovative interventions with babies and their parents across several continents. The contributors are to be commended for their creativity in applying psychoanalysis in such unusual settings and to such evident effect. Psychoanalytic approaches to infant mental health services are now truly established in the international canon of so called early intervention.

Angela Joyce

This book describes an amazing variety of innovative interventions with babies and their parents across several continents. The contributors are to be commended for their creativity in applying psychoanalysis in such unusual settings and to such evident effect. Psychoanalytic approaches to infant mental health services are now truly established in the international canon of so called early intervention.

Angela Joyce Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis

This book presents the remarkable project of parent-infant psychotherapy as developed in individual initiatives around the world. The contributors include experienced and distinguished practitioners who have pioneered treatment programmes uniquely suited to their locality and its culture. They explain their theoretical models lucidly and provide lively and poignant case accounts. The reader is introduced to an array of small children and their families from contexts as diverse as Sub-Saharan Africa, Japan, Australia the US, UK, Brazil, Italy and Switzerland. It is fascinating to note how eloquently children and parents worldwide express their emotional lives and respond to reflective work. The book is a rich clinical and theoretical resource to anyone working with, or interested in the early years. Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is also and excellent academic resource for courses on the early years.

Dr. Meira Likierman

This book presents the remarkable project of parent-infant psychotherapy as developed in individual initiatives around the world. The contributors include experienced and distinguished practitioners who have pioneered treatment programmes uniquely suited to their locality and its culture. They explain their theoretical models lucidly and provide lively and poignant case accounts. The reader is introduced to an array of small children and their families from contexts as diverse as Sub-Saharan Africa, Japan, Australia the US, UK, Brazil, Italy and Switzerland. It is fascinating to note how eloquently children and parents worldwide express their emotional lives and respond to reflective work. The book is a rich clinical and theoretical resource to anyone working with, or interested in the early years. Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is also and excellent academic resource for courses on the early years.”

“This book describes an amazing variety of innovative interventions with babies and their parents across several continents. The contributors are to be commended for their creativity in applying psychoanalysis in such unusual settings and to such evident effect. Psychoanalytic approaches to infant mental health services are now truly established in the international canon of so called early intervention.

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