ABSTRACT The papers in this special issue were delivered at the inaugural Anne Marie Sandler Symposium in Infant Mental Health. The theme of the imagined baby, around which each of these papers is oriented, is central to Anne Marie Sandler’s early work with congenitally blind infants. Indeed, the notion of the imagined baby is a key psychoanalytic developmental idea for the parent-infant relationship and the infant’s emerging self. Each of these papers focuses on how clinicians may observe and understand the imagined infant and use that idea to understand the parent-infant relationship.

中文翻译：

---

想象中的婴儿

摘要本期特刊的论文发表在首届安妮·玛丽·桑德勒婴幼儿心理健康研讨会上。每篇论文都围绕着想象中的婴儿的主题，这是安妮·玛丽·桑德勒（Anne Marie Sandler）早期对先天性盲童进行研究的核心。的确，想象中的婴儿的概念是父母与婴儿关系和婴儿新兴自我的关键心理分析发展观念。这些论文中的每一篇都着重于临床医生如何观察和理解想象中的婴儿，并利用该想法来理解父母与婴儿的关系。