Baby Observation (eBook)

Manuel Perez-Sanchez, psychiatrist, teaching analyst for the IPA, and student of Esther Bick, wrote Baby Observation in 1981. After this publication, he spent his daily working life refining the theoretical understanding and transmitting the clinical contribution of infant observation according to the Bick method. He has given conferences and seminars in various countries of Latin America and Europe, and taught regular courses at the Fundacion San Pablo University in Madrid and in Portugal. With other colleagues he founded the Asociacion Bick Espana, Dr Perez-Sanchez has published on baby observation in magazines, books, conferences, seminars, and international congresses that he has organized or participated in. Among his books, in addition to Baby Observation (also published in Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese), are The Observation of Children (in Spanish and Portuguese), The Everyday and the Unconscious and The Bick Method (in collaboration with Dr Hafsa Chbani). The most recent is Learning from the Baby: Psychoanalytic Philosopher, which includes all his ideas and concepts on the better understanding of the observation of babies, such as original unity, autonomy, function and state, and astonished imagination. Dr Perez-Sanchez has also been exploring themes relating to ethics and the skin, parenting, and fraternity; and lately, using the Mahabharata, the thinking of Bion.