From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 1992
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 1280
- ISBN 13 : 9780415074377
- ISBN 10 : 0415074371
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The advent of ultrasound scans has made it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in its natural surroundings. In this remarkable book, Dr Alessandra Piontelli describes in moving detail her observations of the behaviour of several children from very early stages in the womb, through birth, to infancy and childhood. By drawing on her experiences 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. The first study of its kind, From Fetus to Child shows how observational and psychoanalytic data can offer different but complementary insights in attempting to answer fundamental questions about human development.