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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788057403321

Autore

Vanier Catherine

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

0-429-91749-X

0-429-90326-X

0-367-10263-3

0-429-47849-6

1-78241-267-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library

Disciplina

155.422

Soggetti

Parent and infant

Premature infants - Care

Premature infants

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.