The Tavistock Model: Papers on Child Development and Psychoanalytic Training

COVER......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
ABOUT THE AUTHORS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14
FOREWORD......Page 16
CHAPTER ONE The Tavistock Training and Philosophy......Page 28
CHAPTER TWO The individual in the group: on learning to work with the psychoanalytical method......Page 52
CHAPTER THREE Bion’s conception of a psychoanalytical attitude......Page 72
CHAPTER FOUR The place of once-weekly treatment in the work of an analytically trained child psychotherapist......Page 78
CHAPTER FIVE Growing points in psychoanalysis inspired by the work of Melanie Klein......Page 92
CHAPTER SIX Esther Bick (1901-1983)......Page 120
CHAPTER SEVEN Notes on Infant Observation in Psychoanalytic Training......Page 124
CHAPTER EIGHT The contribution of observation of mother-infant interaction and development to the equipment of a psychoanalyst or psychoanalytic psychotherapist......Page 144
CHAPTER NINE The Experience of the Skin in Early Object Relations......Page 160
CHAPTER TEN Some notes on maternal containment in “good enough” mothering......Page 166
CHAPTER ELEVEN A baby observation: the absent object......Page 190
CHAPTER TWELVE Towards learning from experience in infancy and childhood......Page 198
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The early basis of adult female sexuality and motherliness......Page 216
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Child Analysis Today......Page 234
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The therapeutic process in the psychoanalytic treatment of the child......Page 246
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The complexity of mental pain seen in a six-year-old child following sudden bereavement......Page 262
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The child psychotherapist and the patient’s family......Page 278
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The family circle......Page 300
CHAPTER NINETEEN Therapeutic consultations......Page 316
CHAPTER TWENTY Teacher, counsellor, therapist: towards a definition of the roles......Page 332
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Consultation project in a comprehensive school......Page 344
APPENDIX I Martha Harris and the Tavistock course......Page 372
APPENDIX II Supervision with Esther Bick 1973–1974......Page 374
APPENDIX III Esther Bick’s Legacy of Infant Observation at the Tavistock: some reflections 60 years on......Page 402
REFERENCES......Page 418
INDEX......Page 424