The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

This addresses the provision of therapeutic help for babies and parents when their attachment relationship and the baby's development are at risk.

Tessa Baradon developed and manages the Parent Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre. She is Co-Director at the International Training School for Infancy and Early Years, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, School of Human and Community Development. She is a practicing child psychotherapist and supervisor and writes and lectures on applied psychoanalysis and parent-infant psychotherapy.

Raphael-Leff, Foreword. Baradon, Preface. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Section I. The Theory of Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapy (PPIP). Joyce, Introduction. Joyce, The Parent-Infant Relationship and Infant Mental Health. Baradon, Joyce, The Theory of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy. Baradon, The Clinical Framework and Participants. Baradon, The Therapist and Therapeutic Technique. Section II. The Therapeutic Process. Baradon, Introduction. Biseo, Engaging and Beginning the Work. Broughton, The Middle Phase: Elaboration and Consolidation. Baradon, Fathers in Parent Infant Psychotherapy. Baradon, Broughton, Consideration of Risk in the Parent-Infant Relationship. Baradon, Endings. James, Parent Infant Psychotherapy in Groups. Section III. Clinical Papers. Baradon, Introduction. Joyce, Finding Father Through the Regulating Function of the Parent- Infant Psychotherapist. Biseo, Knowing and Being Known: Parent Infant Psychotherapy in the Face of Severe Maternal Psychopathology.