From fetus to child : an observational and psychoanalytic study
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From fetus to child : an observational and psychoanalytic study
(New library of psychoanalysis, 15)
Tavistock/Routledge, 1992
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hard ISBN 9780415074360
Description
The use of ultrasonic scans in pregnancy makes it possible to observe the foetus undisturbed in the womb. Dr Alessandra Piontelli has done what no one has done before: she observed eleven foetuses (three singletons and four sets of twins) in the womb using ultrasound scans, and then observed their development at home from birth up to the age of four years. She includes a description of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of one of the research children, and the psychoanalysis of five other very young children whose behaviour in analysis suggested that they were deeply preoccupied with their experience in the womb. Dr Piontelli has discovered what many parents have always thought - that each foetus, like each newborn baby, is a highly individual creature. By drawing on her experience as a child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst as well as on her observational research, she is able to investigate issues relating to individuality, psychological birth and the influence of maternal emotions during pregnancy.
Her findings demonstrate clearly how psychoanalytical evidence enhances, deepens and supports observational data on the remarkable behavioural and psychological continuities between pre-natal and post-natal experience. This book should be of interest to professionals in training and practice in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, nursing and medicine.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415074377
Description
The use of ultrasonic scans in pregnancy makes it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in the womb. Dr Alessandra Piontelli has done what no one has done before: she observed eleven fetuses (three singletons and four sets of twins) in the womb using ultrasound scans, and then observed their development at home from birth up to the age of four years. She includes a description of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of one of the research children, and the psychoanalysis of five other very young children whose behaviour in analysis suggested that they were deeply preoccupied with their experience in the womb.
Dr Piontelli has discovered what many parents have always thought - that each fetus, like each newborn baby, is a highly individual creature. By drawing on her experience as a child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst as well as on her observational research, she is able to investigate issues relating to individuality, psychological birth and the influence of maternal emotions during pregnancy. Her findings demonstrate clearly how psychoanalytical evidence enhances, deepens and supports observational data on the remarkable behavioural and psychological continuities between pre-natal and post-natal life.
Table of Contents
Editor's Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Fetal Behaviour and Fetal Environment. Singleton Pregnancies. Twin Pregnancies. Child Analysis. Concluding Remarks. Postscript. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.
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