Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy interfaces theoretical ideas about fatherhood and their incorporation into the clinical practice of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy.

Tessa Baradon initiated the Parent Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre and leads on the training in psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy at the Centre. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, School of Human and Community Development, and consults on parent-infant psychotherapy service development and training in different settings. She writes and lectures on applied psychoanalysis and parent-infant psychotherapy.

Dedication Editor and Contributor Biographies PREFACE, Tessa Baradon Acknowledgements - A JOURNEY INTO FATHERHOOD: THE ART OF FAILING GRACEFULLY Dickon Bevington - THE ROLE OF FATHERS IN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT Kai von Klitzing - "THE DOOR IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD": A FATHER'S FAILURE TO MOURN THE DEATHS OF HIS PARENTS Angela Joyce - WAKING DADDY UP: RESTORING A FATHER'S PLACE IN A BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER COUPLE Alejandra Perez - WHEN WORKING THERAPEUTICALLY WITH A BABY'S FATHER IS NOT POSSIBLE Amanda Jones - PATERNAL ORIENTATIONS AND THE ART OF BEING A FATHER Joan Raphael-Leff - WORKING WITH THE TRIAD Tessa Baradon - THE MALE THERAPIST IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY Abel Fagin - THE THERAPIST AND THE FATHER IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY Yael Segal - WORKING WITH COUPLES AS PARENTS AND PARENTS AS COUPLES Louise Emanuel - CAN THE DIFFICULTIES OF CARRYING OUT THE PATERNAL FUNCTION FOR A TODDLER BE IDENTIFIED FROM THE EARLIEST MONTHS OF A BABY'S LIFE? Marie-Christine Laznik - FREUD ON FATHERS: WHO CARES? Björn Salomonsson - THREE THEMES ABOUT FATHERS IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY Björn Salomonsson, Tessa Baradon and Kai von Klitzing - AND WHAT ABOUT MOTHERS? Tessa Baradon Bibliography Index