Intimate Transformations - Babies With Their Families

About the author

Jeanne Magagna was Head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children for twenty-two years. She also worked for ten years at Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders in London. She received professional qualifications as a child, adult and family psychotherapist and a doctorate from the Tavistock Clinic. Formerly, Jeanne was the vice-president and joint coordinator of training for the Centro Studi Martha Harris Tavistock model trainings in Florence and Venice. She edited 'Universals of Psychoanalysis' and jointly edited 'Psychotherapy with Families and Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families' (Karnac Books, 2004). Her special interest is applying the understandings of infant observation to work with children suffering from communication difficulties and anorexia nervosa.

Summary

This book describes the value of learning about the development of the human personality through the experience of observing a baby in the context of the family. It is distinctive in the field of infant observation literature, for it shows how the affective learning augments the learning experience.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Cooper Bakalar
• Assisted by: Nancy Bakalar (Editor), Bakalar Nancy (Editor), Hope Cooper (Editor), Cooper Hope (Editor), Jaedene Levy (Editor), Levy Jaedene (Editor), Jeanne Magagna (Editor), Magagna Jeanne (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367325145
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32514-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Child and Adolescent Studies, Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy, Reprinting