The story of infant development observational work with Martha Harris Romana Negri ; edited by Meg Harris Williams

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Negri, Romana, 1942-

Contributor:

Harris, Martha, 1919-1987

Williams, Meg Harris, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infants--Development.

Infants.

Infant psychology.

Child psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 235 pages) illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2007.

London Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac 2007

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book brings together the closely observed development of Simone (from birth to three) and the perceptive comments of Martha (or Mattie) Harris, who was such an influential figure in the development of the Observational Studies Course at the Tavistock. Romana Negri's pioneering work on neonatal intensive care units is informed both by infant observation and by psychoanalysis. She presents in this volume the transcribed tapes of her detailed observation of a normally developing infant, whom Martha Harris supervised for three years. Other chapters present observations of children in hospital

Contents:

Chapter 1 The pattern of normal development: forming a relationship with the breast 1 A stunning experience A state of normal non-integration and evacuation of sensations The pull of the nipple Maternal depression and the difficulty of introjecting the object Digesting emotions Problems of identification in the mother The breast that comes and goes away The bottle, and a distance from the mother

Chapter 2 The pattern of normal development: the end of breastfeeding 35 The end of breastfeeding Feelings of aggression and seduction Representations of the breast The lost breast and the nipple lifeline Mother returns to work-the new sweetheart The only baby The relationship with the father How the new baby is made The little chair-the new place in the family

Chapter 3 The story of the birth of the next sibling 89 Feminine and masculine qualities The value of fairy tales The epistemophilic instinct One day it will be his turn A point of "catastrophic change" Birth of the next sibling The "imbecile" infantile self that damages its objects The second day at nursery school / Donald Meltzer The third birthday

Chapter 4 A three-year-old uses the gang as container 155 The gang and circularity of time The parents' unfulfilled childhood / Donald Meltzer

Chapter 5 Play observation in a hospital setting: some diagnostic implications 183 Eleanora: redefining a diagnosis of child psychosis as neurotic anxiety Daniela: redefining a diagnosis of epilepsy as psychosomatic illness Vittoria: redefining a diagnosis of brain pathology in terms of mental deficiency. Two infant observations: Matteo (early internalization of the object) and Giuseppino (the child's look and the mother's emotional state)

Notes:

"The Meg Harris Trust."

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

1855754142

9781855754140

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