Reflections from an infant observation seminar leader: from omnipotence to acceptance: the account of an infant observation of the painful and necessary disillusionment of Jacob

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Acknowledgements

My thanks to Hen Otley and Jacqueline Hewitt, for permission to use and discuss extracts from their observation notes, presented in my infant observation seminar.

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Notes on contributor

Gail Walker is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock Clinic. She has a background in teaching and has worked in Bristol Children's Hospital in Liaison, Haematology and Oncology and Paediatric Chronic Pain. She currently works at The Bridge Foundation in Bristol in the Psychotherapy Service, where she is Assistant Clinical Manager and Lead of the Supervision Service.