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The International Journal of Infant Observation and Its Applications is published several times a year and features articles on the subject of infant observation and its application to a range of disciplines. As developed at London's Tavistock Clinic in 1948 by Esther Bick and her colleagues, infant observation was conceived as a method for the preclinical training of child and adult psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, teachers, social workers, and medical health professionals.
The journal publishes diverse writings emerging from the field, including the work of psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, and others. Each issue includes case studies on infant and young child observation, research papers, and articles focusing on wider applications of the psychoanalytic observational method, including its relevance to psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, social work, teaching, nursing, and related fields.
The articles abstracted in this section illustrate the range of the International Journal of Infant Observation's interests: an infant observation, a study of applied observational techniques, and an examination of the impact of infant observation training on an author's psychoanalytic work.
Psychoanalytic Thinking in the Community Through Bick's Observational Method: A Work Discussion Seminar Experience with Care Workers in a Nursery. By , pp. 245-255.
Monica Cardenal presents an account of the application of psychoanalytic ideas in a community setting: an analytic consultation to a child-care