Finding Your Way with Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2015
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 262
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Category 2 :
Parenting - Catalogue No : 37377
- ISBN 13 : 9781138787063
- ISBN 10 : 113878706X
Also by Dilys Daws
Free UK Delivery over £25
There are currently no reviews
Be the first to review
Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year, and that of the mother, father and other significant adults. It does so in a way that is deeply informed by psychoanalytic understandings, infant observation, developmental science and decades of clinical experience.
Combining the wisdom of many years' work with the freshness of up-to-date knowledge, Dilys Daws and Alexandra de Rementeria engage with the most difficult emotional experiences that are often glossed over in parenting books - such as pregnancy, through birth into bonding, ambivalence about the baby, depression, and the emotional turmoil so often brought to the surface by being a new parent. Acknowledgement and understanding about this darker side of family life offers a sense of relief that can allow parents to harness the power of knowing, owning and sharing feelings to transform situations and break negative cycles and old ways of relating. With real-life examples, references to current thinking and a calm and simple writing style they also provide new insights into the more commonly covered issues such as weaning, sleeping and crying.
Finding Your Way with Your Baby is primarily aimed at parents but it will be a helpful resource for all those working with parents and babies including health visitors, midwives, social workers, GPs, paediatricians and childcare workers. It will appeal to parents and professionals who are interested in ideas from psychoanalytic clinical practice and the latest research in developmental psychology and neuroscience.
About the Author(s)
Dilys Daws is a consultant child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, chair of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, founding chair of the Association for Infant Mental Health-UK, and continues as a visiting consultant at the Baby Clinic of the James Wigg Practice, Kentish Town. She is joint author with Alexandra de Rementeria of the BMA prize-winning book Finding Your Way with Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Infants (2015).
Customer Reviews
Our customers have not yet reviewed this title. Be the first add your own review for this title.
You may also like
Family Psychodynamics in Organizational Contexts: The Hidden Forces that Shape...
Steen Visholm
Price £28.79
save £3.20