Mariângela Mendes de Almeida
Mariângela Mendes de Almeida is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in São Paulo, Brazil, She has been working in the field of mental health and child development since 1982. Between 1988 and 1993, she was a Clinical Associate at the Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, where she received her MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies (from the University of East London). She is currently training as an analyst at the Institute of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo. She specializes in early interventions on primitive states of mind in children with severe emotional disturbances. She has written chapters for Exploring Feeding Difficulties in Children - The Generosity of Acceptance (edited by G. Williams et al., 2004) and Un Bisogno Vitale (edited by E. Quagliata, 2002).
Looking and Listening: Work from the São Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre with a Supervision Seminar by Esther Bick
A collection of descriptions of infant observation and the applications of the method of observing babies as pioneered by Esther Bick. Includes a chapter with transcripts of Esther Bick at work in... (more)