Cover Page -- Tavistock Clinic Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- I THEORY AND PRACTICE -- Early developments -- 1 Brief work with parents of infants -- 2 The relation of infant observation to clinical practice in an under-fives counselling service -- 3 Infant-parent psychotherapy: Selma Fraiberg's contribution to understanding the past in the present -- Later developments -- 4 The process of change in under-fives work -- 5 A slow unfolding-at double speed: therapeutic interventions with parents and their young children -- 6 A sinking heart: whose problem is it? Under-fives work in the surgery of a general practitioner -- II COMMON THEMES IN WORK WITH UNDER FIVES -- Challenging and disruptive behaviour -- 7 Anger between children and parents: how can we help? -- 8 Disruptive and distressed toddlers: the impact of undetected maternal depression on infants and young children -- 9 Where the wild things are: tantrums and behaviour problems in two under-fives boys -- The parent couple and oedipal issues -- 10 Locating the ghost in the nursery: the importance of the parental couple -- 11 Father "there and not there": the concept of a "united couple" in families with unstable partnerships -- 12 Oedipal issues in under-fives families: creating a space for thinking -- Separation and loss -- weaning and growth -- 13 Spanning presence and absence: separation anxiety in the early years -- 14 Sleeping and feeding problems: attunement and daring to be different -- 15 Holding the balance: life and death in the early years -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.