Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper, an earlier version of which was presented at the University of Vienna Congress on Infant Observation on 20th April 2024, links the positive impact of infant observation, (a pre-training requirement for very many psychoanalytic psychotherapy pieces of training across the world), and its significance in noticing detail and non-verbal communication for practitioners of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy. The author illustrates the importance of the observation of behaviour, events and the psychotherapist’s countertransference in understanding the communications of the referred child and his or her play and the links between the family history and the symptoms which led to the referral. The parent-infant psychotherapist’s capacity to give words to feelings that the child or children might express is linked with one or both parents’ current difficulties and with significant but unexpressed aspects of their personal and shared history.
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