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Parent-Infant Psychodynamics Wild things, Mirrors and Ghosts Parent-Infant Psychodynamics brings together a collection of classical papers from a variety of orientations, describing the complex interactive patterns between parents and their baby from birth and before. Carefully selected from a wealth of literature on the subject, the chapters in this book reveal some of the unconscious forces driving the dynamics between family members and how these influence development of the child's internal world. A reciprocal focus is on the impact of this primary interaction on the parent, the power of the past and ways in which unprocessed residues of their own formative interactions are stirred into action by exposure to the baby's preverbal communications, and contact with primal substances, thus perpetuating transgenerational transmission. The book is intended for interested parents, and practitioners such as midwives, health visitors, social workers, couple counsellors, child and adolescent psychotherapists, parent-infant and family therapists, child protection and youth workers, family support workers and other early years' professionals. The broad spectrum of topics engages with management issues for those working with parents and their babies, within the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and new biological realities. There is a particular emphasis on recognition of risk factors relating to areas of emotional vulnerability in families and their impact on the health-care practitioner. Authors include: Acquarone, Balint, Bick, Bion, Brazelton, Daws, Fraiberg, Green, Grier, Hawthorne, Hopkins, Murray, Spitz, Trevarthen, Tronick, Winnicott, Wittenberg, Wright... Edited by Joan Raphael-Leff Visiting Professor at University College London. Leads the Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research at the Anna Freud Centre, and a government funded training programme for professionals working with Teenage Parents and Consultant to many perinatal projects around the world. Previous Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex To our grandson and eight granddaughters and all the babies to come Parent-Infant Psychodynamics Wild things, Mirrors and Ghosts A Reader designed for a variety of practitioners working with expectant parents, babies and their families, and for parents and students in pursuit of psychoanalytic understanding. Edited by JOAN RAPHAEL-LEFF First published 2003 by Anna Freud Centre Published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2008 collection as a whole: Joan Raphael-Leff Individual chapters © source or author All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Parent-Infant Psychodynamics - Wild things, Mirrors and Ghosts edited by Joan Raphael-Leff Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Infant-Mental health 2. Mothers and Psychoanalysis 3. Parents-Psychology. 4. Women - Mental health. ISBN 13: 978-0-9549319-2-6 (pbk) ‘The longer I live, the more convinced I am that we re all haunted in this world - not only by the things we inherit from our parents - but by the ghosts of innumerable old prejudices and beliefs - half-forgotten cruelties and betrayals - we may not even be aware of them - but they are there all the same - and we can’t get rid of them. The whole world is haunted by these ghosts of the dead past; you have only to pick up a newspaper to see them weaving in and out between the lines - Ah! If only we had the courage to sweep them all out and let in the light!’ (Ghosts, Ibsen, 1881, tr. Eva le Gallienne, Modern Library Books, Random House, 1957, p. 119) v Contents Preface ix Joan Raphael-Lejf Contributors xi Introduction: On wildness and ghosts - an introduction to xv psychoanalytic thinking Joan Raphael-Lejf PART I Face to Face - Containment and Early Exchange 1 Chapter 1 5 Face and facade - the mother’s face as the baby’s mirror Ken Wright Chapter 2 18 Mirror-role of mother and family in child development Donald W Winnicott Chapter 3 25 Conversations with a two-month-old Colwyn Trevarthen Chapter 4 35 Emotions and emotional communication in infants Edward Z. Tronick Vll viii Parent-Infant Psychodynamics Chapter 5 54 Where the wild things are Joan Raphael-Lejf Chapter 6 70 The experience of the skin in early object relations Esther Bick Chapter 7 74 A theory of thinking Wilfred R. Bion PART II Unprocessed Residues 83 Chapter 8 87 Ghosts in the nursery: a psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant-mother relationships Selma Fraiberg, Edna Adelson and Vivian Shapiro Chapter 9 118 Therapeutic interventions in infancy: two contrasting cases of persistent crying Juliet Hopkins Chapter 10 131 Sleep problems in babies and young children Dilys Daws Chapter 11 142 Into the night: children’s dream books Ellen Handler Spitz Chapter 12 153 Unconscious communication Enid Balint Contents IX Chapter 13 162 The dead mother complex Andre Green PART III Representations and Reality 175 Chapter 14 177 Joy and woe: response to prenatal testing Glenn Whitney Chapter 15 185 Parenting an infant with a birth defect - the regulation of self-esteem Dorian Mintzer, Heidelise Als, Edward Z. Tronick and T. Berry Brazelton Chapter 16 209 Amanda: observations and reflection on a bottle-fed baby who found a breast mother Francis Grier Chapter 17 231 Cannibalism and succour: is breast always best? (thoughts on ‘Amanda’) Joan Raphael-Leff PART IV Management Issues 241 Chapter 18 245 Psychoanalytic insight and relationships Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg Chapter 19 256 Understanding the language of babies Joanna Hawthorne
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