Looking and listening work from the Sao Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre with a supervision seminar by Esther Bick (Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac, 2012)
English translationsof several chapters originally published in in Portuguese in 'O olhar e a escuta para compreender a primeira infância."
"Meltzer referred to this stage of life as the "great combine harvester of adolescence". In essence: all have to go through it; some find it hard to emerge from it. Theory and clinical material bring alive the political and ethical states of mind of adolescents as they re-evaluate their child knowledge and understanding. The tension builds through the book, leading from imaginative descriptions of ordinary pubertal states of mind to the destructiveness of perversity. The case discussions in the book provide a master class on technique and clinical understanding."--Ellie Roberts, Consultant
Includes bibliographical references and index
Esther Bick's infant observation method / Daisy Maia Branco -- Esther Bick in South America : group seminar on the observation of a baby girl from birth to eight months / Esther Bick -- Aspects of supervision : an observation seminar about a ten-month-old triplet / Marisa Pelella Mélega -- The flame of psychic life : reviewing a two-year observation twenty years later / Mariza Leite da Costa -- Early feeding difficulties : risk and resilience in early mismatches within the parent-child relationship / Mariângela Mendes de Almeida -- Psychoanalytic observation : the Esther Bick method as a clinical tool / Magaly Miranda Marconato Callia -- The psychoanalytic observer as model for a maternal containing function / Marisa Pelella Mélega -- The psychoanalytic observer at the nursery / Ana Rosa Campana de Almeida Pernambuco and Maria da Graça Palmigiani -- The psychoanalytic observer in paediatric assessment / Marisa Pelella Mélega and Maria da Graça Palmigiani -- Joint parent and child therapeutic interventions / Marisa Pelella Mélega -- A family assessment based on the Esther Bick method / Ana Rosa Campana de Almeida Pernambuco -- The observer in the neonatal intensive care unit / Mariza S. Inglez de Souza -- Infant observation and its developments : working with autistic children / Mariângela Mendes de Almeida -- A research methodology for the study of symbolic activity in infants / Marisa Pelella Mélega and Maria Cecília Sonzogno