Bob Bennett, MD,CGP,FAPA ·   Melissa Black, PhD,CGP
Dale C. Godby, PhD,CGP,ABPP  ·   Myrna Little, PhD,CGP
Scott Nelson, PhD, CGP

  6330 LBJ Fwy, Suite 150, Dallas, TX 75240
972-392-4155

Announcing:

Infant Observation Seminar

Contemporary depth psychologies believe the newborn faces terrors in his desperate attempt to create a psychic space in which to survive. Before such an inner space can develop, however, these terrors must first be soothed by the infant finding a caring surface with which to adhere.

This stage of the self being (or not being) held together is studied in the introspective method known as Infant Observation. Because it is earlier than that site visited by Melanie Klein, and therefore precedes splitting and projection, it is fundamental to all future mental health and development.

Infant Observation Seminar offers the student a particular learning experience that applies to therapy with any age individual. It is now a method of training that produces a blossoming literature in Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Sweden, and the United States.

Students learn the impact of emotional events in the infant mind, but equally important, learn how the emotionality of themselves, the observer, becomes a means by which to understand nonverbal experience, enactments, and coercive unconscious communication. In addition, the containing aspect of the Seminar itself emphasizes the problems, techniques, and aspects of containment in the therapeutic setting. In the words of Donald Meltzer, “Infant observation and reporting enables one to receive the vibrations, hear the music, and smell the scent of love and hate in primitive form.”

READINGS

Closely Observed Infants (Eds Miller, Rustin & Rustin, Shuttleworth).

Introducing Melanie Klein (Hinshelwood, Robinson, Zarate).

Thinking About Infants and Children (Harris, Martha).

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