Psychological treatment for the infant

Translation: Mohamed Saeed Al-Khaladis Publication date: 2011 Edition: 1 Number of pages: 205 pages Cover: Hardcover Publisher: Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority The authors in the book address the interactions that occur between parents and the infant in all their manifestations and issues, and what may be associated with or result from them of psychological disturbances. This discussion falls under neonatal psychotherapy, which is considered an epistemological entry point for studying the infant from the perspective of abnormal psychology, and as a subject for clinical study. The authors focused on detailing the clinical approach to the infant, pointing to five major features that continuously enrich and develop it: based on observation and interaction, and confident in reverse transformation, in positioning, and in the historical dimension. They then deliberately described in detail the capacities of the infant—sensory, motor, social, and perceptual—and considered the abilities of the parents and the psychological dynamics of pregnancy, with reference to the concepts of the imaginary child and the phantasmatic child, where the former refers to the child that parents can easily imagine and conceive, while the latter is related to the parents' fantasies, and thus belongs to them. After birth, they will have to reconcile the existence of the imaginary and phantasmatic child with their real infant. The benefit of this book lies in its clear and educational approach to the current state of research in neonatal psychotherapy, which often relies theoretically and practically on psychoanalytic contributions.