ABSTRACT
Babies and parents spend quite a considerable time in group contexts, and babies have been in group situations or interacting with each other since the beginning of time. This chapter looks at some ways that few kinds of groups using a psychoanalytically informed group therapy model could be therapeutic. It describes some clinical findings, particularly the interactions between infants and therapists and those between the infants themselves. The chapter also describes the set up and running of the group as it applies to the original mother–baby therapy group. The closed psychotherapy group was established for the mothers and babies, with some separate early evening sessions for the fathers and the babies as well. The group therapy model was seen as an ideal way to provide a non-threatening way for mothers to talk about their experience while engaging and playing with their own babies.
