Working Psychoanalytically with Infants

Working Psychoanalytically with Infants: From Francoise Dolto to Zhuang Zhou explores several case studies from Nicole Yvert Coursilly's work in French care homes, providing psychoanalytic treatment to babies who had suffered traumatic experiences.

Nicole Yvert Coursilly is a psychoanalyst in private practice based in Paris, France. She has worked as a clinician in the public sector and in non-profit organisations for thirty years, and as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in psychiatric hospitals for both children and adults. She is former president of Espace-Enfance, an association for the training of personnel specialised in early childhood.

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH EDITION 1. CONTEXT: Stories, Individual and Collective 2. CLINICAL WORK: Narratives and Scenes 3. LANGUAGE: Words and the Body 4. TRANSFERENCE WITH LITTLE HUMANS 5. ON AVAILABILITY AND TRANSFERENCE CONCLUSION