Looking in the right way: the use of infant observation as a clinical tool in parent−infant psychotherapy with parents with severe mental health difficulties

References

• Beebe, B. (2005). Mother-infant research informs mother-infant treatment. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 60, 7–46.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bick, E. (1964). Notes on infant observation in psychoanalytic training. In M. Harris Williams (Ed.), (1987) Collected papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick (pp. 104–113). Strathtay: Clunie Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bion, W. R. (1962). Learning from experience. London: Heinemann.
   Google Scholar
• Briggs, S. (1997). Growth and risk in infancy. London: Jessica Kingsley.
   Google Scholar
• Delion, P. (2000). The application of Esther Bick’s method to the observation of babies at risk of autism. Infant Observation Journal, 3(3), 84–90. doi: 10.1080/13698030008599644
   Google Scholar
• Fraiberg, S. H., Adelson, E., & Shapiro, V. (1975). Ghosts in the nursery: A psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant-mother relationships. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 14, 387–421. doi: 10.1016/S0002-7138(09)61442-4
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Geertz, C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Harris, M. (1976). The contribution of observation of mother−infant interaction and development to the equipment of a psychoanalyst or psychoanalytic psychotherapist. In M. Harris Williams (Ed.), (1987) Collected papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick (pp. 225–239). Strathtay: Clunie Press.
   Google Scholar
• Houzel, D. (1999). A therapeutic application of infant observation in child psychiatry. Infant Observation Journal, 2(3), 42–53. doi: 10.1080/13698039908405029
   Google Scholar
• Klein, M. (1937/1975). Love, guilt and reparation. In Love, guilt and reparation and other works 1921–1945 (pp. 306–343). London: Hogarth.
   Google Scholar
• Likierman, M. (1997). Psychoanalytic observation in community and primary health care education. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 11(2), 147–157. doi: 10.1080/02668739700700121
   Google Scholar
• Mahler, M. S., Pine, F., & Bergman, A. (1975). The psychological birth of the human infant: Symbiosis and individuation. New York, NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Miller, L. (1992). The relation of infant observation to clinical practice in an under 5s counselling service. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 18(1), 19–32. doi: 10.1080/00754179208259361
   Google Scholar
• Piontelli, A. (1992). From fetus to child. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Pozzi Monzo, M. (2011). The use of observation in parent-infant work when both parents have a diagnosis of mental illness. Infant Observation Journal, 14(1), 43–60. doi: 10.1080/13698036.2011.552598
   Google Scholar
• Price, H., & Cooper, A. (2012). In the field: Psychoanalytic observation and epistemological realism. In C. Urwin & J. Sternberg (Eds.), Infant observation and research: Emotional processes in everyday lives (pp. 55–65). London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Rhode, M. (2007). Helping toddlers to communicate: Infant observation as an early intervention. In S. Acquarone (Ed.), Autism in infant: Detection and early intervention (pp. 193–212). London: Karnac.
   Google Scholar
• Rustin, M. (1989). Observing infants: Reflections on methods. In L. Miller, M. Rustin, M. Rustin, & J. Shuttleworth (Eds.), Closely observed infants (pp. 52–75). London: Duckworth.
   Google Scholar
• Rustin, M. (2002). Looking in the right place: Complexity theory, psychoanalysis and infant observation. Infant Observation, 5(1), 122–144. doi: 10.1080/13698030208401653
   Google Scholar
• Rustin, M. (2006). Infant observation research: What have we learned so far? Infant Observation, 9(1), 35–52. doi: 10.1080/13698030600593856
   Google Scholar
• Shallcross, W. (2012). What can be learned from a single case of psychoanalysitc infant observation? In C. Urwin & J. Sternberg (Eds.), Infant observation and research: Emotional processes in everyday lives (pp. 69–80). London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Sorensen, P. B. (1997). Thoughts on the containing process from the perspective of infant/mother relations (pp. 113–122). In S. Reid (Ed.), Developments in infant observation. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Sternberg, J. (2005). Infant observation at the heart of training. London: Karnac.
   Google Scholar
• Svanberg, P. O., & Barlow, J. (2009). Keeping the baby in mind: Infant mental health in practice. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Trowell, J. (1999). Assessment and court work: The place of observation. Infant Observation, 2(2), 91–101. doi: 10.1080/13698039908400550
   Google Scholar
• Trowell, J., & Miles, G. (2012). Evaluation of the application of infant observation in the training of frontline professionals working with children and families. In C. Urwin & J. Sternberg (Eds.), Infant observation and research: Emotional processes in everyday lives (pp. 33–43). London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Wakelyn, J. (2011). Therapeutic observation of an infant in foster care. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 37(3), 280–310. doi: 10.1080/0075417X.2011.614746
   Google Scholar
• Youell, B. (2002). The relevance of infant and young-child observations in multidisciplinary assessment for the family courts. In A. Briggs (Ed.), Surviving space: Papers on infant observation (pp. 117–134). London: Karnac.
   Google Scholar
• Zero to Three. (2006). Diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood, (DC: 0-3R). Washington, DC: Zero to Three Press.
   Google Scholar