Tavistock Clinic Book Series

Surviving space: infant observation and other papers: essays on the centenary of Esther Bick.

As part of the prestigious Tavistock Clinic Series, this is an essential addition to this highly-valued and innovative series. Infant observation is crucial to most psychotherapy training, and this work would be of obvious value to those commencing their training, as well as valuable insights for all psychotherapists.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I Pioneering ideas: the papers of Esther Bick

1. Child analysis today [1962]
2. Notes on infant observation in psychoanalytic training [1964]
3. The experience of skin in early object relations [1968]
4. Further considerations on the function of the skin in early object relations [1986]

II Pushing at the boundaries

1. Three years of observation with Mrs Bick
   Jeanne Magagna
2. Mrs Bick and infant observation
   Joan Symington
3. The relevance of infant and young-child observation in multidisciplinary assessments for the family courts
   Biddy Youell
4. Mrs Bick’s contribution to the understanding of severe feeding difficulties and pervasive refusal
5. Applying the observational method: observing organizations
   R D Hinshelwood
6. Secondary skin and culture: reflections on some aspects of teaching Traveller children
   Jan Dollery, with Andrew Briggs
7. Reflections on the function of the skin in psychosocial space
   Stephen Briggs
8. The skin in early objects relations revisited
   Judith Jackson & Eleanor Nowers
9. Whom does the skin belong to? Trauma, communication, and a sense of self
   Maria Rhode
10. Failures to link: attacks or defects, disintegration or unitegration?
    Anne Alvarez
11. Looking in the right place: complexity theory, psychoanalysis, and infant observation
    Michael Rustin

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