Catherine Vanier
Dr Catherine Vanier is a practicing analyst, and a member and former President of the Espace Analytique Association in Paris. She also works as an psychoanalyst in the neonatology service of the Hôpital Delafontaine in Saint Denis and is the President of Enfance en Jeu, an association for research in paediatrics, psychoanalysis, and pedagogy. She has written numerous articles and books, including The Broken Piano: Lacanian Psychotherapy with Children (Other Press, 1999). In 2010 she received France’s highest award, the Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst
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... (more)