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The relevance of observation skills to the work discussion seminar

This paper was written with the aim of helping students to think about the ways in which observation skills can underlie therapeutic practice in a wide variety of work situations. The model of observation I have in mind is that based on the principles elucidated by Esther Bick, the founder of the method of Infant Observation, which is, arguably, the pivotal seminar in pre-clinical training and in observational study courses. These same principles are employed in young child observation, and in the kind of observation I am going to discuss in some detail, that of observing oneself in one’s work setting, in relation to the children with whom one is working.