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Perspectives on Early Parenthood and Infancy: A Psychoanalytic, Neuroscientific, Developmental and Cultural Dialogue

Editor : Alejandra Perez, Editor : Elena Panagiotopoulou, Editor : Ruth Roberts

Table of Contents

Part I - Conception
1. Psychoanalytic perspectives on conception
Alejandra Perez

2. Fertility and reproductive health education for family building: What? Who? Why and how
Bola Grace

3. Psychoanalytic perspectives on assisted donor conception
Katherine Fine

4. Psychosocial aspects of donor conception and seeking identity of donors
Ken Daniels & Letitia Meadows

5. The social and psychological aspects of forming a family through surrogacy
Vasanti Javda

6. Discussion: Conception
Alejandra Perez & Ruth Roberts

Part II - Pregnancy
7. Physical and psychological changes: A psychoanalytic perspective
Alejandra Perez

8. Neurobiological perspectives on pregnancy
Erika Barba-Muller

9. The bodily self during pregnancy
Elena Panagiotopoulou & Catherine E.J. Preston

10. The socio-cultural context of expectant parenthood: A case study of a transgender father in his third trimester
Lisa Thackeray & Dominic Jones

11. Discussion: Pregnancy and the prenatal stage
Alejandra Perez & Elena Panagiotopoulou

Part III - Birth
12. Hopes, fears, and change during birth
Alejandra Perez

13. Traumatic births
Claudia Goulder

14. Psycho-neurobiology of physiological versus medicalized births: The role of birthing consciousness and hypofrontality
Orli Dahan

15. The bodily self during birth
Sarah Veale, Lydia Munns & Catherine Preston

16. The socio-cultural context of birth
Sergio A. Silverio & Tisha Dasgupta

17. Discussion: Birth
Alejandra Perez & Ruth Roberts

Part IV - Transition to Parenthood
18. Psychological changes and challenges in the transition to parenthood
Bjorn Salomonsson

19. Psychoanalytic thinking and the parenting couple
Kate Thompson

20. Making space for a third: A family case study
Alejandra Perez

21. Neurobiological changes in early parenthood
Helena Rutherford

22. The bodily self after birth
Elena Panagiotopoulou

23. Parenthood Readiness Education in Japan
Akira Kanazawa

24. Discussion: Transition to parenthood
Alejandra Perez & Elena Panagiotopoulou

Part V - Infancy
25. Psychoanalytic and attachment perspectives on the infant's inner world
Alejandra Perez

26. Biological bases of attachment
Paula Oliveira & Ana Mesquita

27. The role of individual factors in infant development
Jodi Swanson & Daniel H. Erickson

28. The development of self-awareness in infancy
Andrew Bremner & Victoria Southgate

29. Psychological therapies and Muslim families - Why we need to think about faith identity
Rachel Abedi

30. Discussion: Infancy
Alejandra Perez & Elena Panagiotopoulou

Part VI - The Early Parent-Infant Relationship
31. Modulation of affect, transformation of raw experiences, and expansion of the self in the parent-infant dyad
Alejandra Perez

32. Internal experiences of separations: Weaning, feeding, and sleeping
Alex de Rementeria

33. The Neurobiological Basis of Parent-Infant Attachment'
Pascal Vrticka & Amanda Lucas

34. Tuning in to baby: the importance of parental mentalising
Ruth Roberts

35. Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy as preventive work
Coretta Ogbuagu

36. The socio-cultural context of parent-infant interactions: working with Orthodox Jewish families
Sue Schraer

37. Discussion: The early parent-infant relationship
Alejandra Perez & Ruth Roberts