The usefulness of baby observation (Esther Bick model) as part of analytic training

Abstract

Infant observation is a valuable tool in learning to listen and to understand patients' communication. When this approach is used in the analytic relationship, it can become the source of a new approach to very early, primitive levels of thought and body-mind links in very early development.

Keywords:

• baby observation
• psychoanalytic training
• proto-thought
• earliest levels of symbolisation
• phantasy
• dreams