Premature birth : the baby, the doctor and the psychoanalyst / by Catherine Vanier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanier, Catherine, author.

Contributor:

Watson, Linday, translator.

Series:

Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research library.

Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and infant.

Premature infants--Care.

Premature infants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

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, the author 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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 09, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-91749-X

0-429-90326-X

0-367-10263-3

0-429-47849-6

1-78241-267-0

9780429478499

OCLC:

902957956