Parent-infant psychodynamics : wild things, mirrors and ghosts /
edited by Joan Raphael-Leff.
- xix, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Preface / Introduction: On wildness and ghosts - an introduction to psychoanalytic thinking / Face to Face - Containment and Early Exchange -- Face and facade - the mother's face as the baby's mirror / Mirror-role of mother and family in child development / Conversations with a two-month-old / Emotions and emotional communication in infants / Where the wild things are / The experience of the skin in early object relations / A theory of thinking / Unprocessed Residues -- Ghosts in the nursery: a psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant-mother relationships / Therapeutic interventions in infancy: two contrasting cases of persistent crying / Sleep problems in babies and young children / Into the night: children's dream books / Unconscious communication / The dead mother complex / Representations and Reality -- Joy and woe: response of prenatal testing / Parenting an infant with a birth defect - the regulation of self-esteem / Amanda: observations and reflection on a bottle-fed baby who found a breast mother / Cannibalism and succour: is breast always best? (thoughts on 'Amanda') / Management Issues -- Psychoanalytic insight and relationships / Understanding the language of babies / The effect of infants' behaviour on maternal mental health / Management of perinatal loss of a twin / Pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death: psychological risks and management / Feeding disorders / Joan Raphael-Leff -- Joan Raphael-Leff -- Ken Wright -- Donald W. Winnicott -- Colwyn Trevarthen -- Edward Z. Tronick -- Joan Raphael-Leff -- Esther Bick -- Wilfred R. Bion -- Selma Fraiberg, Edna Adelson and Vivian Shapiro -- Juliet Hopkins -- Dilys Daws -- Ellen Handler Spitz -- Enid Balint -- Andre Green -- Glenn Whitney -- Dorian Mintzer, Heidelise Als, Edward Z. Tronick and T. Berry Brazelton -- Francis Grier -- Joan Raphael-Leff -- Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg -- Joanna Hawthorne -- Lynne Murray -- Emanuel Lewis and Elizabeth Bryan -- Stanford Bourne and Emanuel Lewis -- Stella Acquarone. Pt. I. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Pt. II. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Pt. III. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17. Pt. IV. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23.
"This book is intended for interested parents and professionals such as midwives; health visitors; social workers; couple counsellors; child therapists; parent-infant or family therapists; General Practice nurses and doctors; psychiatric nurses; fertility experts; obstetricians and gynaecologists, etc. working with expectant parents, babies and their families."--BOOK JACKET.