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Every time she saw Jilly smiling or beginning to play she felt sad and tearful as she thought of her dread. Following this discussion the change in Jilly was remarkable. As Jane grew able to confide in the therapist, and began to face the feelings about her own loss of her mother in her childhood, Jilly seemed less distressed and more able to tolerate the small separations that being put down entailed. They did not any more seem linked with the terrible dread—connected here with Jane’s unresolved grief for her dead mother.
Bion (1967), a psychoanalyst in the Kleinian tradition, described the mother’s ‘reverie’ through which she receives the baby’s communications and understands them, enabling her to respond in calming, soothing, reassuring ways, giving the baby the experience of his distressing feelings being ‘contained’. The father’s place has traditionally been to support and protect his partner and baby. With the social changes of the late twentieth century, fathers have been given a more active role directly in relation to the child, and psychoanalytic thinking has not been very slow in catching up with this.
The baby gazes directly at the mother’s or father’s face, and can even imitate another person’s facial expression! In the active alert state the baby moves his limbs in discontinuous but rhythmical bursts. Even in sleep there are different states of arousal as the baby goes from quiet to active phases. Drowsiness is the state between waking and sleeping. Crying denotes the baby’s distress and is the most potent form of communication available to the infant before language is acquired. These all have adaptive purposes, alerting the caregiver to be interested in the infant and promoting their interaction.