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Serge Lebovici

Elements of Baby Psychopathology

Review of the Press

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« Preceded by the publication of the videotapes and the book, here comes the first CD-ROM of the collection "At the Dawn of Life", supervised by Serge Lebovici and Bernard Golse. It is also the first one that Devenir is taking an inventory of. This first-born was well born, at term, and is worth it. These elements of baby psychopathology are centered on Serge Lebovici's technique of parent-child interview, on the one hand, on the theory of attachment and on Mary Main on the other. […]

This CD-ROM is an event. It is the first one of the kind in psychopathology. It shows a great clinician in action, who offers his style, his concepts and his interventions to the discussion of a panel of experts of different sensitivities. We have at our disposal reflections from each of the debaters, and Serge Lebovici's answers to each remark or objection. The reader can react, and can also evaluate his knowledge, by answering himself to the 10 questions asked to the debaters. This CD-ROM is also, to my knowledge, the first and to this day the only pedagogical document on the theory of attachment presenting Mary Main's works and the Adult Attachment Interview in French.

Finally, an essential and sensitizing training tool, meant for professionals of early mental health and to students in psychology, paediatrics, medicine and psychiatry, but that can be appreciated yet by a larger public. Indispensable to any university or specialized service library, this CD-ROM has its place in general libraries, since it is at the same time an educational and sensitizing document, and a historical one, allowing to attend to a colloquium, with in its center, the most outstanding personality of baby psychiatry in France. »

Antoine Guédeney

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Volume 11, n°2, 1999