Learning About Human Nature and Analytic Technique from Mothers and Babies

Nara Amalia Caron is a medical doctor, and a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst. She is a full member of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society (SPPA), Brazil, a training analyst at the SPPA Institute, and the director of the SPPA Infant and Adolescent Unit from 2010-2011. She has been a seminar leader of infant observation groups according to Esther Bick for more than thirty years. Rita Sobreira Lopes has a PhD in psychology from the University of London. She is Full Professor in Developmental Psychology, with emphasis on emotional development, and senior researcher for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), as well as one of coordinators of the Infant and Family Unit at the Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.

Preface , Theoretical and Methodological Foundations , A place where verbalisation has no meaning , A research journey to this place where verbalisation has no meaning , Mothers’ and Babies’ Journeys in the First Three Years of Life , Maiara and her twins, Raoni and Anahi: one womb to gestate two, each in its own time , Lucia and her twins, Daniela and Renata: the birth of fraternity in the struggle against maternal indiscrimination , Tânia and her daughter, Julie: the creative recovery of discontinuities in a tailor-made space of protection, care, and mutual growth , Alice and her daughter, Valentina: a ferocious struggle to be born , Philomena: an inner journey back to the beginning , Back to the Beginning , The challenges and contributions of this “descent to the realm of the mothers”