Taking your 2 month old child to a psychiatrist

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British parents are turning to the psychiatrist's couch to resolve family issues with children as young as two months. A report in The Sunday Times found that parents are making appointments for babes in arms, worried about their crying or sleeping.

Dr Shirley Gracias, a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, who chairs the Association for Infant Mental Health, tells the newspaper: 'When I work with parents and children, my main purpose is to help parents develop the relationship between themselves and the child. I see babies who are agitated, who can’t stop crying and are generally unhappy. When you see a mother and baby who have bonded very well, you will see a smooth sequence of turn-taking: the baby will coo, the parent will coo back, the parent will smile, the baby will smile back.'

'It's reached the point where parents seem afraid to trust their own instincts,' says Raisingkids.co.uk founder and child psychologist, Dr Pat Spungin. 'It's absolutely daft. Babies cry and they sleep – that's what they do. This is the ultimate example of today's parents feeling disempowered – that they feel they have to turn to experts for help with what's the most natural process in the world.'

The marvels of modern education have turned many parents into blithering idiots.