ABSTRACT
The general approach of the Parent Infant Centre is to understand and work with early emotional difficulties between parents and their babies in a psychoanalytic manner. The aim of psychoanalysis is to understand ideas, conflicts, and emotions that lie behind the behaviour shown. The psychoanalytic setting provides the space and time free from the interruptions of everyday life in which to observe and understand relationships. The psychoanalytic setting provides the space and time free from interruptions of everyday life in which to observe and understand relationships. D. W. Winnicott described a "holding phase in infancy", which is the creation of a psychosomatic existence, a primary integration, referred to as an "indwelling of psyche in the soma". W. R., Bion calls the fear and anxiety that a baby might experience at birth as a "nameless dread". He believed this to be a consequence of the failure of the environment to provide "realisations" to preconceptions formed by the baby in womb.
