Foreword
Meg Harris Williams
I PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING
1. The Tavistock training and philosophy (1977)
Martha Harris
2. The individual in the group: on learning to work with the psychoanalytical method (1978)
Martha Harris
3. Bion’s conception of a psychoanalytical attitude (1980)
Martha Harris
4. The place of once-weekly treatment in the equipment of a psychoanalytically trained child psychotherapist (1971)
Martha Harris
5. Growing points in psychoanalysis inspired by the work of Melanie Klein (1982)
Martha Harris
6. Esther Bick, 1901–1983
Martha Harris
7. Child analysis today (1962)
Esther Bick
8. Notes on infant observation in psychoanalytic training (1964)
Esther Bick
9. The contribution of observation of mother–infant interaction and development to the equipment of a psychoanalyst or psychoanalytic psychotherapist (1976)
Martha Harris
II PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL WORK
10. The experience of the skin in early object relations (1968)
Esther Bick
11. Further considerations on the function of the skin in early object relations (1986)
Esther Bick
12. Some notes on maternal containment in “good enough” mothering (1975)
Martha Harris
13. A baby observation: the absent object (1980)
Martha Harris
14. Towards learning from experience in infancy and childhood (1978)
Martha Harris
15. Personality development: latency (1964)
Martha Harris
16. The therapeutic process in the psychoanalytic treatment of the child (c.1968)
Martha Harris
17. The complexity of pain in a six-year-old child following sudden bereavement (1973)
Martha Harris
18. Depression and the depressive position in an adolescent boy (1965)
Martha Harris
19. Discussion of an adolescent girl (1975)
Martha Harris
20. The early basis of adult female sexuality and motherliness (1975)
Martha Harris
21. Infantile elements and adult strivings in adolescent sexuality (1976)
Martha Harris
III FAMILY AND SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
22. The child psychotherapist and the patient’s family (1968)
Martha Harris
23. The family circle (1967)
Martha Harris
24. Therapeutic consultations (1966)
Martha Harris
25. Teacher, counsellor, therapist: towards a definition of the roles (1972)
Martha Harris
26. Consultation project in a comprehensive school (1968)
Martha Harris
APPENDIX I
Martha Harris and the Tavistock course by Donald Meltzer
APPENDIX II
The genesis of the Tavistock schools’ counselling course by Jack Whitehead
APPENDIX III
Supervision with Esther Bick by Ann Cebon
APPENDIX IV
Esther Bick’s legacy of infant observation at the Tavistock by Margaret Rustin
References
Index
