Tessa Baradon initiated the Parent Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre and leads on the training in psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy at the Centre. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, School of Human and Community Development, and consults on parent-infant psychotherapy service development and training in different settings. She writes and lectures on applied psychoanalysis and parent-infant psychotherapy.

Dedication

Editor and Contributor Biographies

PREFACE, Tessa Baradon

Acknowledgements

1. A JOURNEY INTO FATHERHOOD: THE ART OF FAILING GRACEFULLY

Dickon Bevington

2. THE ROLE OF FATHERS IN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Kai von Klitzing

3. "THE DOOR IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD": A FATHER¿S FAILURE TO MOURN THE DEATHS OF HIS PARENTS

Angela Joyce

4. WAKING DADDY UP: RESTORING A FATHER¿S PLACE IN A BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER COUPLE

Alejandra Perez

5. WHEN WORKING THERAPEUTICALLY WITH A BABY¿S FATHER IS NOT POSSIBLE

Amanda Jones

6. PATERNAL ORIENTATIONS AND THE ART OF BEING A FATHER

Joan Raphael-Leff

7. WORKING WITH THE TRIAD

Tessa Baradon

8. THE MALE THERAPIST IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abel Fagin

9. THE THERAPIST AND THE FATHER IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Yael Segal

10. WORKING WITH COUPLES AS PARENTS AND PARENTS AS COUPLES

Louise Emanuel

11. CAN THE DIFFICULTIES OF CARRYING OUT THE PATERNAL FUNCTION FOR A TODDLER BE IDENTIFIED FROM THE EARLIEST MONTHS OF A BABY¿S LIFE?

Marie-Christine Laznik

12. FREUD ON FATHERS: WHO CARES?

Björn Salomonsson

13. THREE THEMES ABOUT FATHERS IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Björn Salomonsson, Tessa Baradon and Kai von Klitzing

14. AND WHAT ABOUT MOTHERS?
    
    Tessa Baradon

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