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Behind the mirror: Interviews with parents whose baby has been observed according to Esther Bick's method

In 1948, this Polish psychoanalyst who was working at the Tavistock Clinic in London perfected a method of training through observation of a baby in its family. She outlines her method in the only article she wrote on the subject (1964). Through an intermediary the observer finds a willing family. The intermediary has an important role because it is he who chooses the family, gives a basic explanation of the method and serves as an object for positive pretransference. The training consists of three phases: the observation, taking notes, and discussion in the seminar. The observer visits the family for about an hour once a week. After the hour of observation the observer makes notes in the greatest detail possible of all that he has seen, heard and felt. These notes will be discussed in a weekly seminar made up of three or four observers and a seminar leader, a psychoanalyst who has done an observation himself. The aims of this training are numerous and consist of: