Focussing on infants and the relationship between child and parent, this book presents a discourse on eminent Jungian child analyst Michael Fordham’s model of development that extended Jung’s theory to infancy and childhood.

In this book, Urban, a Jungian psychotherapist in weekly conversations with Fordham, proposes five key new areas that contribute towards the Fordham model of infant development such as identifying periods of primary self-functioning and the active participation of the infant in development. Drawing extensively on the author’s observations and experiences working in a London Child and Adolescent Unit and a mother and baby unit, and using real life observations to support the proposed contributions, the reader will gain a deeper understanding of infant development in the context of the relationship with the parents.

This book is a unique contribution to the study of child development and is of great interest to paediatricians, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals who work with children and their parents.