From Fetus to Child (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)

Piontelli, Alessandra

ISBN 10: 0415074371 / ISBN 13: 9780415074377

Published by Routledge, 1992

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Covers rubbed. Back top corner jammed and 20 pages jammed as well. Clean and tight. Page edges soiled. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Fetus to Child (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415074371
• ISBN 13: 9780415074377
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

The use of ultrasonic scans in pregnancy makes it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in the womb. Dr Alessandra Piontelli has done what no one has done before: she observed eleven fetuses (three singletons and four sets of twins) in the womb using ultrasound scans, and then observed their development at home from birth up to the age of four years. She includes a description of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of one of the research children, and the psychoanalysis of five other very young children whose behaviour in analysis suggested that they were deeply preoccupied with their experience in the womb.

Dr Piontelli has discovered what many parents have always thought - that each fetus, like each newborn baby, is a highly individual creature. By drawing on her experience 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. Her findings demonstrate clearly how psychoanalytical evidence enhances, deepens and supports observational data on the remarkable behavioural and psychological continuities between pre-natal and post-natal life.

About the Author

Alessandra Piontelli