THE IMPORTANCE OF INFANCY
and its implications for psychotherapy
and its implications for psychotherapy
A seminar for adult and child psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, counsellors and psychologists working with the concept of the baby-self
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PROGRAMME
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Psychodynamic, systemically sensitive therapeutic treatment for parents and babies
In this presentation, Amanda Jones will consider why, for many parents, pregnancy and the first year of their baby’s life can lead to a serious emotional breakdown. Research has demonstrated how a parent’s disturbance can derail a baby’s development and begin the construction of an insecure and frightening object relational world. With the help of video material Amanda will introduce a way of working therapeutically with the parent-baby relationship.
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Primitive anxieties and risk
In this presentation Amanda will explore the tension for a therapist working with high levels of risk in relation to the baby. Some mothers see hated aspects of themselves in their babies and then can feel overwhelmingly hostile towards their baby. This work has a particular impact on the therapist who may have to bear knowing for some time that a baby isn’t loved. As the therapy progresses these projections may be lifted from the baby but need then to be located for some time in the therapist, who then becomes the repository of hateful feelings.
13.15 Lunch
14.15 “Remembering, Repeating and Working Through”: revisiting Freud’s concept of repetition compulsion in perinatal breakdown.
In this presentation Amanda will revisit Freud’s concept of repetition compulsion and explore how it can manifest in both the parent infant dyad and the parent-therapist relationship. Amanda will show how a mother’s motivation to do better for her baby can be a powerful ally to the therapeutic process and enable her to face and resolve previously buried early experiences.
16:00 End
SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES
AMANDA JONES PhD, is an Honorary Associate Professor of Warwick Medical School and head of North East London NHS Foundation Trust’s Tier 3 Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service. She trained as a family therapist and then did her doctoral research at the Tavistock/UEL, which investigated how the maternal use of ‘projective identification’ can derail a baby’s development. In collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre, Amanda was involved in the Channel Four documentaries ‘Help me love my baby’, winner of the 2007 Royal Society of Television’s best factual programmes award. She speaks at national and international conferences on psychodynamic parent-infant treatment and teaches on the clinical psychology programmes at UCL and UEL.
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