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Premature Birth : The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR) SeriesPublisher: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (277 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781782412670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Premature BirthDDC classification:
  • 155.45
LOC classification:
  • BF720.P37 -- .V36 2013eb
Online resources:
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 both the problems and the progress of prematurely born babies in a new way.
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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.

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 both the problems and the progress of prematurely born babies in a new way.

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