1st Edition
Premature Birth The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst
By Catherine Vanier
Copyright 2015
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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If advances in medical technology now allow babies to be born earlier and survive premature birth, what of the psychical impact of this emergence into the world? What consequences can premature birth have for babies, for their families, and for the medical staff around them? In this exciting and inspiring study, the author describes the work she has undertaken over the past twenty years in a... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACRONYMS TRANSLATOR'S NOTE INTRODUCTION On being premature: babies, their doctors, and their psychoanalysts CHAPTER ONE Psychoanalysis and neonatal resuscitation CHAPTER TWO Working with families CHAPTER THREE Babies who "walk the tightrope" CHAPTER FOUR Working with the team CHAPTER FIVE Former premature babies CHAPTER SIX A place for the psychoanalyst? REFERENCES INDEX
Biography
Catherine Vanier
