You and Your Baby

by Frances Thomson-Salo

Overview

This volume is to help parents understand what their baby is likely to be feeling in the first year. It describes how the baby's sense of self develops, with intentionality, empathy and recognition of the self. It focuses on the baby's subjective experience of the world, viewing the baby as a subject in his or her own right, and in this way makes a unique contribution in the area of understanding the early non-verbal experiences of infants. Each of the authors featured has published papers and books for the academic and clinical communities; the present volumes, however, are specifically aimed at parents. The intent is not to convince but to inform the reader. Rather than offering solutions, we are describing, explaining and discussing the problems that parents meet while bringing up their children, from infancy through to adulthood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753631
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2005
Series:	The Karnac Developmental Psychology Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frances Thomson Salo is a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society as a child and adult psychoanalyst and is an Associate Professor of University of Melbourne. She was appointed Overall Chair of the IPA Committee of Women in Psychoanalysis by Charles Hanly in 2009. She is immediate past President of the Australian Psychoanalytical Association and a Training Analyst in private practice. She is a Consultant Infant Mental Health clinician in the Royal Women's Hospital Centre, Melbourne; Associate researcher for the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; and on the teaching faculty for the University of Melbourne Graduate Diploma/Masters in Infant and Parent Mental Health. She has published in the fields of child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and infant mental health.

Table of Contents

1 setting the scene, 1 a baby's developing self 2 the developing self in the first two months, 3 a baby's intentional self, 4 a baby's self-recognition, 5 a baby's empathie self, II the tasks facing the developing self 6 relating to fathers, siblings, and other people, 7 attachment and separation, 8 thinking, 9 feeling good and feeling the best: healthy narcissism and omnipotence, 10 concern and oedipal wishes, I I I the self in difficulty, 11 physical and emotional difficulties, afterword.