psychoanalytic infant observation
This is a revised edition of the Collected papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick, published in 1987 by the Clunie Press, also edited by Meg Harris Williams. It benefits from a new foreword by Harris Williams, and three Appendices: an appreciation by Donald Meltzer on Martha Harris’s contribution to the Tavistock Course written after her death in 1987, an account of the experience of being in an infant observation seminar with Mrs Bick, and... more
This article reviews three volumes of the International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications - 1998, 1999, 2000 for a non-specialist readership:
vol 4 number 12, vol 5 number 2, volume 2 number 3, volume 3 numbers 2 and 3, vol 1 number 2;
also the Journal Child Psychotherapy - 1998, 1999, 2000):
vol 25 number 2, volume 24 number 2 (3 articles).
Themes are traced.
The review article covers the following two volumes:
International Journal of Infant Observation and its Applications, Volume 6, No. 1, 2003
Journal of Child Psychotherapy 29, 1, April 2003
The editorial sets out this issue’s topic of dialogue, which historically has been difficult, between child psychotherapists and infant observers who have found developmental psychology useful and influential in their clinical work, and developmental and social psychologists who have found psychoanalytic thinking valuable in opening doors to new research methods and the development of new theories. It asks what kind of child development... more
This paper describes a CU’s participation in a project based at the Oslo Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), within the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters, addressing Personal development and socio-cultural change. What brought the group of 21 ‘Fellows’ together was a shared ‘psycho-social’ commitment to understanding the personal in the socio-cultural and the socio-cultural in the personal. It had been decided that, during CU’s time... more
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