Infant observation

The author attempts to integrate several perspectives within the field of infant observation that reflect the analyst's personal experience as a clinician, as a professor at the analytic institute and as a researcher in the field of psychoanalysis. Can infant observation contribute to analytic technique, theory and training? If so, what would be the nature of such contribution? To answer these questions, the author reviews the literature on infant observation from Freud to the present, highlighting Latin American contributions to this subject. She makes reference to the role of technological innovations, which have allowed videotaping, repeated observations, temporal segmentation and computerized programs, thus giving rise to microanalytic research. This discussion prompts the question about the contributions made by systematic research to clinical practice. To tackle this question, the author presents both a clinical vignette taken from her personal experience, and the current debate on this subject as it appears in the work of Daniel Stern and André Green. Finally, she presents some conclusions that are part of an ongoing debate in the psychoanalytic field

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  Open Access•Karen Gilmore•The International Journal of…•2009

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• Education Section

  Open Access•Jorge Canestri•The International Journal of…•2009

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• The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment

  D W Winnicott•Maturational Processes and the…•2018

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• Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change

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• Early stages of initiative and environmental response

  Open Access•Joachim Hoffmann, J Miguel Hoffmann et al.•Infant Mental Health Journal•1998

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• Childhood trauma, the neurobiology of adaptation, and “use-dependent” development of the brain

  Open Access•Bruce D Perry, Ronnie A Pollard et al.•Infant Mental Health Journal•1995

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• Emotions and emotional communication in infants

  Edward Z Tronick•American Psychologist•1989

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• Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis

  Open Access•Bruce Reis•Journal of the American…•2003

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• The Irrelevance of Infant Observations for Psychoanalysis

  Open Access•Peter H Wolff•Journal of the American…•1996

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• Mobilizing Fundamental Modes of Development

  Open Access•Robert N Emde•Journal of the American…•1990

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• The contribution of mother-infant mutual influence to the origins of self- and object representations

  Beatrice Beebe, Frank M Lachmann•Psychoanalytic Psychology•1988

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