ABSTRACT
The ‘mind to mind’ activity between therapist and patients is the fundamental activity in the therapeutic process. It broadly resembles the developmental process of stimulation, scaffolding and regulation for the infant through engagement with the adult mind. However, while the infant is constructing his representational world, the parent is revisiting it through the therapy. In so doing, parent and therapist straddle both undoing and rebuilding of adaptations and defences. Maintaining the parent’s adult functioning and her position as parent, despite some possible regression in revisiting her own infantile needs, is vital for the well-being of her baby.
