The Interpersonal Words of the Infant: Implications of Current Infant Language Research for Psychoanalytic Theories of Infant Development, Language, and Therapeutic Action

Vivona, Jeanine M.

doi:10.1080/00332828.2019.1652048

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“…the use of microanalytic principles to the study of therapy process without necessarily following a systematic coding procedure (Personal communication Beatrice Beebe 25.12.22), has been extended from infant research to the study of psychotherapy process (Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) 2002Lyons-Ruth, 1998;Stern, 2004;Stern et al, 1998). It has been applied to adult and child psychoanalytic psychotherapies (Avdi & Seikkula, 2019;Harrison & Tronick, 2007;Vivona, 2019), music therapy (Suvini et al, 2017), dance therapy (Houghton & Beebe 2016) and parent-infant psychotherapy (Beebe, 2003(Beebe, , 2005Cramer & Stern, 1988;Downing et al, 2008).…”

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Observing and interpreting clinical process: Methods and findings from ‘Layered analysis’ of parent–infant psychotherapy

Baradon

Avdi

Sleed

et al. 2023

Infant Mental Health Journal

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This paper describes a method for investigating clinical process, Layered Analysis, which combines therapist countertransference reports and multi‐faceted microanalytic research approaches. Findings from the application of Layered Analysis to video‐recorded micro‐events of rupture and repair in four psychoanalytic parent–infant psychotherapy sessions are presented. Layered analysis showed that countertransference and observation are complementary perspectives, which enable concomitant study of interactive events, conscious internal experiences, as well as nonconscious and unconscious elements of therapeutic interaction. Interactional rupture and repair were found to constitute co‐constructed micro‐events that occurred fleetingly and often implicitly, and differed in the structure, coherence and flow of interactions and in the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication. Furthermore, interactional ruptures were found to sometimes ‘get into’ the therapist and transiently disrupt their self‐organization, such that the therapist became a locus of disruption for the patient(s), actively contributing to the rupture, which thus became embedded in the therapeutic system. Interactive repair was found to be most often initiated by the therapist and to be underpinned by the therapist re‐establishing self‐regulation, through metabolizing embodied and verbal aspects of the rupture. Studying such processes can enhance our understanding of clinical process, inform therapist training and clinical supervision, and contribute to clinical outcomes.

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Observing and interpreting clinical process: Methods and findings from ‘Layered analysis’ of parent–infant psychotherapy

Baradon

Avdi

Sleed

et al. 2023

Infant Mental Health Journal

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“…To understand infant mental health and wellbeing means valuing the infant as a relational individual with a sense of self and need for connection (Vivona, 2019). Infant mental health (IMH) is critically important to optimal child development (Gee et al., 2021; Schindler et al., 2019).…”

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How do maternal and child health nurses incorporate infant mental health promotion into their clinical practice? Experiences of an Australian municipality

Stevens,

Sheeran,

Buist

2024

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The field of infant mental health (IMH) has offered valuable insights into the critical importance of social–emotional development, including the enduring influence of early experiences throughout life. Maternal and Child Health (MCH) nurses are ideally placed to facilitate knowledge sharing with parents. This Australian‐based qualitative exploratory descriptive study explored how MCH nurses incorporate IMH in their clinical practice, and how they share this information with caregivers. Ten community‐based MCH nurses participated in voluntary, semi‐structured interviews which were transcribed verbatim and analyzed thematically. Findings identified five themes that characterized how MCH nurses incorporated IMH concepts into their practice. These themes were: prioritizing physical health promotion activities, highlighting infant communications, variations in knowledge and application of IMH concepts, workplace time schedules, and the relational nature of the work. Recommendations include encouraging IMH as a health promotion activity, facilitating IMH assessment, further education, reflective supervision, and extension of predetermined appointment times to enable knowledge and skill sharing. Further research is also recommended to provide additional insights into how nurses with IMH training promote and share IMH concepts with caregivers. Adoption of these recommendations would further enhance the care given to families and the role of the MCH nurses.

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Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Giorgio Agamben

LaMothe

2022

The Psychoanalytic Review

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The author uses the work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben to reimagine the meaning and dynamics of trauma, as well as psychoanalysis as a process that remedies, in part, traumatic experiences. More particularly, trauma is conceptualized in terms of Agamben's notions of potentiality, singularity/suchness, and inoperativity, although these are inflected from psychosocial developmental and political perspectives. This provides a way to bridge the idea of individual trauma with the larger political milieu's apparatuses that can be systemically traumatizing, as seen in the social death of racism. This reframing of trauma leads to reconceiving the process of therapy as rendering inoperative memories of trauma and, in some cases, traumainducing apparatuses, while, in part, mending the dialectical and paradoxical tension between potentiality and actuality that is necessary for socialpolitical agency and experiences of singularity.

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The Interpersonal Words of the Infant: Implications of Current Infant Language Research for Psychoanalytic Theories of Infant Development, Language, and Therapeutic Action

Cited by 4 publications

References 84 publications

Observing and interpreting clinical process: Methods and findings from ‘Layered analysis’ of parent–infant psychotherapy

Observing and interpreting clinical process: Methods and findings from ‘Layered analysis’ of parent–infant psychotherapy

How do maternal and child health nurses incorporate infant mental health promotion into their clinical practice? Experiences of an Australian municipality

Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Giorgio Agamben

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