This book has emerged from the authors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Europe, South Africa and the United States. It shows how the therapy connects with the culture of the family inspired by the wider community.
Foreword -- Summary -- Introduction -- Looking at the symptoms as a
starting point for understanding -- Echoes from overseas: Brazilian
experiences in psychoanalytic observation, its developments, and therapeutic
interventions with parents and small children -- Multidisciplinary early
intervention with infants and young children presenting emotional, physical,
and speech difficulties -- Brief mother-father-infant psychodynamic
psychotherapy: clinical and technical aspects -- The role of the infant in
parent-child psychotherapies -- Therapeutic consultation: early detection of
alarm symptoms in infants and treatment with parent-infant psychotherapy --
Transformational process in parent-infant psychotherapy: provision in
community drop-in groups -- Babies in groups: the creative roles of the
babies, the mothers, and the therapists -- Parent-infant psychotherapy: when
feelings of futility are prevalent -- The health visitors role in promoting
well being in families -- It wasnt meant to happen like this: the
complexity of mourning great expectations -- Ten years of parent-infant
psychotherapy in a township in South Africa. What have we learnt? --
Innovation in parent-infant psychotherapy in Japan: the infant reveals family
trauma
Maria Pozzi Monzo, Beverley Tydeman
