Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Working With  Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy interfaces  theoretical ideas about fatherhood and their incorporation into the  clinical practice of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy. Often,  when a family attends parent-infant psychotherapy, issues of the father  are eclipsed by attention to the mother, who is usually the identified  patient. Until now relatively neglected in the literature, this book  attends to both the barriers to psychological work with the father, and  to ways in which he can be engaged in a therapeutic process.

In  this book, Tessa Baradon brings together some of the most eminent  clinicians and academics in the field of parent-infant psychotherapy, in  a layered collection of theoretical and clinical contributions. She and  her co-discussants, Björn Salomonsson and Kai von Klitzing, conclude  with an integration and critique of the themes presented, exploring the  ideas of their fellow contributors and expanding on the central themes  of the work.

Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic  Parent-Infant Psychotherapy will be of interest to mental health  practitioners working with infants, who will learn that each individual  and the family as a system can benefit from such an inclusive approach.