February 4, 2012

Parent-infant psychotherapy: Basic principles and techniques.

Presentation and Discussion

Dvd clips will be used to illustrate the therapeutic processes involved in treatments for mothers and babies in individual and group settings

The session will be interactive, participants will be encouraged to enter into the experiences of the babies, mothers and therapists.

A particular focus will be upon the role of working with the parent and infant relationship, to include ‘claiming the baby’.

Discussion will be throughout the session in relation to the material.

Jessica James is a Group Analyst specialising as a parent infant psychotherapist. She has been a member of the Anna Freud Centre Parent Infant Project since its inception 15 years ago. She runs therapeutic groups in different community settings, including a hostel for homeless families, a mother and baby psychiatric unit as well as in treatment settings. She also prepares couples for birth and parenthood and ran analytic groups at the Women’s Therapy Centre for many years. She teaches and writes in the field. Recent contributions include: The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy, Baradon with Broughton, Gibbs, James, Joyce and Woodhead 2005, Innovations in parent infant psychotherapy, edited Pozzi-Monzo and Tydeman and Relational Trauma in Infancy, edited Baradon 2010.