Infant Observation

Presentation by Ms Sarah Jones, practicing psychotherapist who has trained at Tavistock Clinic, London and is the author of Understanding Your One Year Old
 
Discussants: Dr. Vinita Kshetrapal, Training and Supervision Psychoanalyst, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Jesus and Mary College; and Ms Mallika Akbar, Secretary, Indian Psychoanalytic Society, Delhi

Chief Guest: Dr. Sudhir Kakar, eminent psychoanalyst, writer, and novelist

Ms Jones's talk will address a subject pivotal to a psychodynamic understanding of the human psyche. A vastly neglected terrain in our own child rearing practices, the talk will look at how the infant's psyche is being shaped before it comes to be recognized as a person