Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties
Book Details
- Publisher : Anna Freud Centre
- Published : 2014
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 220
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 35506
- ISBN 13 : 9780954931940
- ISBN 10 : 0954931947
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Contents:
Chapter 1: MATERNAL ORIENTATIONS - Mothers' Approaches to Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
Chapter 2: FAMILY CLIMATES - Interaction Between Fathers, Mothers, Babies and Siblings
Chapter 3: FRUIT OF THE WOMB - In and Out, With, Without
Chapter 4: INTER-CORPOREAL HOSPITALITY - Self and Other: Placental Paradigm and Ethics of Reproduction
Chapter 5: A MEETING OF MINDS - Communication, Mirroring and Mentalization
Chapter 6: CONTAGIOUS AROUSAL – Formlessness, Deformation, Transformation
Chapter 7: PSYCHIC EMBODIMENT - Sameness and Difference, Separateness and Oneness
Chapter 8: GENDER IDENTITY AND GENERATIVE AGENCY
Chapter 9: PSYCHIC ‘GEODES’ - The Presence of Absence
Chapter 10: BREAKING THE DARKNESS - Eros and Assisted Reproduction
Chapter 11: DARK LEGACIES - Perinatal Losses: Abortion, Miscarriage, Neonatal Death and Replacement
Chapter 12: OUT OF THE SHADOWS - Adoption
Chapter 13: WOMAN -' THE DARK CONTINENT' – Female Bodies in Social Space
Chapter 14: ALIENS AND ALIENATION - Mind Invaders and Body Snatchers
Chapter 15: THE TRANS-GENERATIONAL 'CAULDRON'
Chapter 16: DARKNESS VISIBLE - Severe Perinatal Disturbance
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About the Author(s)
Joan Raphael-Leff, PhD, psychoanalyst (fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society) and social psychologist, leads the UCL/Anna Freud Centre academic faculty for psychoanalytic research. Previously, she was head of University College London's MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, and professor of psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. For 35 years she has specialized in emotional issues of reproduction and early parenting, with more than 100 single-author peer-reviewed publications, and twelve books. Founder and first international chair of COWAP (IPA's Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis) in 1998, she provides training for practitioners working with teenage parents, and is consultant to perinatal and women's projects in many high and low income countries.
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