Abstract

CARON, Nara Amália. "Analysts practicing something else"? Challenges of children and infants to psychoanalysis. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2014, vol.48, n.2, pp. 67-82. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author emphasizes the challenges that direct contact with children and infants brings to psychoanalytic theory and technique. She shows the importance of the infant observation method created by Esther Bick as a tool for the analyst when dealing with primitive transference/countertransference phenomena in which the setting is more important than interpretation. The observer's function and the changes he/she undergoes throughout the process - specifically the development of a refined listening of primitive psychic phenomena - result in a setting enriched by infant observation experience which may be adapted to different external settings. Observational material taken from applications of the method to obstetric ultrasounds, at an obstetric centre and a Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit is presented aiming to illustrate the analyst's personal enrichment, as well as the important therapeutic function of these applications, which are most welcome in early developmental stages.

Keywords : Bick method; applications of the Bick method; setting; early developmental stages; children and infants.

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