Baby observation and child psychotherapy training in Mumbai with a brief observational account from one of the students

Abstract

This paper describes the work and collaborations that contributed to the growth of the psychoanalytic community in Mumbai and Kolkata. It describes this with both the development of the Psychoanalytic Observation Studies Training and later, the Child Psychotherapy training. The second part of the paper gives a brief overview of a student's experience of observing a baby in Mumbai.

Keywords:

• Infant Observation
• child psychotherapy
• training
• India
• inter-cultural observation

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Simi Vij who generously agreed to have her observation study included in the paper. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 8th International Observation Congress in Buenos Aires under the auspices of the Psychoanalytic Societies of Argentina.