Development III: Infant and Child Observation

Christine Anzieu-Premmeurer, M.D.

1 –May 13 2006.
On Observation.

Sigmund Freud, Beyond the pleasure principle, 1920, St .Ed. Vol XVIII, 14-17.

**Kestenberg J. Psychoanalytic Infant Observation, 1977, Int. Rev. Of Psychoanal.,4, 393-407.

2 -May 20.
Baby or child observation from the candidates.
Clinical vignettes.

**Donald W. Winnicott. The Observation on Infants in a Set Situation. 1941. Internat. Journal Psy.22:229. Or in Trough Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, p.52-69. Basic Books. 1975.

Elsa First. Mothering, Hate and Winnicott . in Bassin, Honey and kaplan, Eds, Representations of Motherhood , Yale, 1994.

Jan Abram. Spatula Game, in The Language of Winnicott. 1996. p.290-302. Jason Aronson.

3 –June 3.
The Tavistock Model.
Video Tape of the Still Face Observation.

Reid S. Psychoanalytic Infant Observation, in 1997 Developments in Infant Observation, The Tavistock Model, Routledge, London.

Michael Rustin, What do we see in the nursery? In Jo. Infant Observation, 1997, vol 1, No1.

4 –June 10.
On Containment and Mentalization.

Video Tape of a 13-month old boy.

Pamela Berse Sorensen. Thoughts on the Containing Process from the Perspective on Infant/Mother Relations. in 1997 Developments in Infant Observation, The Tavistock Model, Routledge, London. con.’t

Phillips A. Sternberg J. A Compilation of early observations, in 200 Journal Of Infant Observation, 3, #2, 93-100.

Burnhouse A. Now we are two, going on three: triadic thinking and its link with development in the context of young child observation, in 2001 Journal of Infant Observation, 4, #2, 51-67.