Marisa Pelella Melega
Marisa Pelella Mélega is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice, and a Training Analyst and Supervisor at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo. She founded the São Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre in 1987, receiving accreditation from the Centro Studi Martha Harris, in Rome. She teaches at the Brazilian Institute as a child psychoanalyst, where she chaired the training in child analysis from 1990 to 1996. Her clinical and research interests include applications of the Esther Bick observation model, as in assessment and therapeutic interventions with parents and children. She is the author of Looking and Listening: Work from the São Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre; Post-Autism: a Psychoanalytic Narrative, with Donald Meltzer's supervisions; and Eugenio Montale, Poetic Creativity and Psychoanalysis.
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)
Post-Autism: A Psychoanalytical Narrative, with Supervisions by Donald Meltzer
Post-Autism recounts in close and vivid detail the story of the author’s struggle to analyse and communicate with a pubertal boy who presented with a diagnosis of untreated infantile autism. Marisa... (more)
Meltzer in Sao Paulo
This book is one of a series that record Donald Meltzer’s clinical seminars and supervisions, which were conducted in various countries on a regular basis over many years. Despite his interest in the... (more)
Symbol Formation in Psychoanalysis
Marisa Pelella Mélega draws on a broad spectrum of clinical and observational work, gathered over many years as a practising and teaching psychoanalyst based in São Paulo, Brazil.
The role of... (more)