| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 253 pages) |
| Series |
Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library |
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Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research library.
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| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACRONYMS; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION On being premature: babies, their doctors, and their psychoanalysts; CHAPTER ONEP sychoanalysis 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 |
| Summary |
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, psychoanalyst Catherine Vanier describes the work she has undertaken over the past twenty years in a neonatal intensive care unit. She shows how a sensitivity to the subjective experience of all concerned can have dramatic effects, and how a psychoanalytic ear can allow us to understand |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 09, 2015) |
| Subject |
Parent and infant.
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Premature infants -- Care
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Premature infants
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Infant, Premature
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Parent and infant
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Premature infants
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Premature infants -- Care
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watson, Linday, translator
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| ISBN |
9781782412670 |
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1782412670 |
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