ABSTRACT
Brief parent-infant psychotherapy is a short-term psychotherapeutic intervention method targeting parents with their child. It has been employed in Geneva according to the technical principles described by Selma Fraiberg. This type of psychotherapeutic intervention was principally created for babies presenting functional symptoms or behavioral disorders. In 1993, the author published the technical details of the brief psychotherapeutic interventions, the nature of the psychotherapeutic process and the importance of focusing on parents' fantasies concerning their child. While the research programme on brief mother-infant psychotherapy was under way, the father sometimes wished to participate in the sessions with the mother and infant. Of course, the therapist accepted and thereafter worked with this triad. Thus, the author became interested in studying the specific characteristics of the brief psychodynamic psychotherapies carried out with the mother-father-infant triad. The author emphasizes the clinical impression that the father's and mother's fantasy experiences with their infant are quite similar.
