Development II: Infant-Child Observation

PSA - Third Trimester 2006-07
First Year Candidates
10:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
5 Weeks - Begins April 21

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D.

This course is an introduction to the early psychic development: how the baby gets a sense of a self through the quality of the interactions with the environment.
It is a preverbal stage of development that requires a specific observation. The capacity for observation and empathy will be discussed as a tool for the psychoanalyst observing the patient and containing early anxieties

* Available on P.E.P. and will not be found on CD provided by Institute

1 –APRIL 21 2007.
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 -APRIL 28.

 Baby or child observation from the candidates.  Clinical vignettes.

-Phillips A. Sternberg J. A Compilation of early observations, in Journal Of Infant Observation, 3/2, (2000) 93-100.

-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.

-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.

3 –MAY 5.

Video Tape of a 13-month old boy.

-Tyson and Tyson. The development of a sense of self, in 1990 Psychoanalytic Theories of Development, p.118-129. Yale Univ.Press.

-Judy Shuttleworth. Psychoanalytic Theory and Infant development. in Closely Observed Infants, Miller, Rustin, Shuttleworth, London, 1989. p.22-51.

4 –MAY 12.

-*Donald W. Winnicott. The Observation on Infants in a Set Situation. 1941. Internat. Journal Psy.22:229-249. 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.

5 –MAY 19.

-Anzieu Didier, 1989, “The notion of a Skin Ego”, Chapter 3, p.36-45; “Functions of the Skin Ego”, Chapter 5, p.96-113. in The Skin Ego, Yale Univ. Press

-*Watillon-Naveau, A. (1992). Alice or the Vicissitudes of the Mother-Daughter Relationship. Int. R. Psycho-Anal., 19:209-216.