Three years of infant observation with Mrs. Bick

Oedipal anxieties, the birth of a second baby and the role of the observer

“…As Bick pointed out (Magagna, 1987) it is not simply jealousy with which the young child is struggling. Alone with his parents, the child has a sense of being their child whom they love.…”

Reviews

“…They introduced colleagues who, like themselves, had become interested in Kleinian and post-Kleinian ideas through James Gammill, who at that time had been largely responsible for awakening interest in France in Klein's work, particularly in the area of child analysis. When time permitted, they sat in on other infant observation seminars led by Mrs Bick, such as the one for which Jeanne Magagna was the presenter; her account of this seminar, previously published in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy (Magagna, 1987), is partially reprinted in this volume.…”

The importance of observing babies in the education of psychotherapists

“…· br. 1 64 razvoju tako što se tokom seminara vide različite bebe i različite porodice i da omogućava studentu jedinstvenu priliku da sami otkriju kako se formiraju odnosi u porodici [14,15,16,17] .…”

“…1 66 što su građenje terapijske alijanse, postepeno stvaranje slike o fenomenologiji pred nama i tolerisanje frustracije koje su usko povezane sa kapacitetom da se ostane sa komplikovanim i nekompletnim znanjem i razumevnjem [5] . Interesantno je i da je opservacija beba početni deo treninga i nudi kandidatu početniku jedinstveno iskustvo tokom kojeg se odvija neka vrsta selekcije i autoselekcije jer se kapacitet za učenje multidimenzionalnog načina mišljenja i analitičkog stava procenjuje upravo ovde, a samim tim i podobnost za poziv psihoterapeuta [2,3,5,14,15,16,17] .…”