Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Primal Representations - Three-Month-Old Tina -- Containment -Maternal Music and Paternal Worlds With Three-Month-Old Frida -- What Does a Baby Understand? - Eight-Month-Old Karen -- An Infant's Experience of Mother's Depression - Sixteen-Month-Old Beate -- The Infant "Within " the Adult - Interacting With Monica -- The Living Fossil - Tristan's Urvergessen -- Classical Concepts Revisited I - Primal Repression -- Classical Concepts Revisited II - Infantile Sexuality -- Classical Concepts Revisited III - Transference -- Mother-Infant Psychoanalytic Treatment - Does it Work? Epilogue.

This book provides a clear guide to work with distressed babies and unhappy parents, a numerous clinical group so often in need of urgent help.