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Notes on the Technique of Psychoanalytic Infant Observation: A Group-Analytic Training PerspectivePsychotherapy Dept, 53-5 Argyle Rd, Reading RG1 7YL, UK. Recent developments in the field of psychoanalytic infant observation are considered as a basis for extending the dyadic focus of the technique to encompass a group orientated perspective. A provisional method of `group-as-a-whole infant observation' is presented using illustrative material and is accompanied by a contextualizing analysis. It is posited that group observation of infants and children may highlight group dynamics in unrefined forms and may therefore be a useful resource not only in the training of group practitioners but also as a way of deepening group and social theory.
Key Words: group-analytic training psychoanalytic infant observation
Group Analysis, Vol. 34, No. 2,
253-266 (2001) |
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