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Coming into the world : a dialogue between medical and human sciences : International Congress "The 'Normal' Complexities of Coming into the World", Modena, Italy, 28-30, September 2006 /

Prominent scientists from perinatal medicine, paediatrics, psychology and sociology met in Modena, Italy to explore birth as a complex psychological experience for mother, father and child. The proceedings of this interdisciplinary congress are here published in English to reach the broadest possibl...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Congress "The 'Normal' Complexities of Coming into the World" Modena, Italy
Otros Autores: La Sala, Giovanni Battista
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2006.
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  • Machine derived contents note: G. Batasta La Sala
  • 1. Preface: The "normal" complexities of comi.ng into the world 1
  • The cry of the newborn represents the "normal" as well as the "mysterious" complexity
  • of coming into the world.
  • S. Piccinini
  • 2. Let children speak 3
  • It is necessary to reunite disciplines since each on it own way is helpless and, therefore,
  • transcultural soidarity is needed.
  • I Blickstein
  • 3. Modern reproductive medicine and the definition of parenthood:
  • Praeter Naturam 5
  • ART changed the definition of fatherhood, motherhood, and parenthood; this calls for
  • open-iminndedness to these unnatural circumstances.
  • E. Tronick
  • 4. Self and dyadic expansion of consciousness, meaning-making, open
  • systems, and the experience of pleasure 13
  • When new meanings are self-created or co-created, the individual experiences an
  • expansin of her own state of consciousness, a feeling of being bigger and a connected-
  • ness to t e action, idea or person on which or with whom the new meaning was made.
  • V Jori
  • 5. Birth: Between medical and human science 25
  • A new qualification of culture and practices connected to childbirth require retrieval of
  • the fundamental relationship between medical and human science.
  • V. Gallese
  • 6. Intentional attunement: Mirror neurons, intersubjectivity, and autism 45
  • The shared diversity of inter-subjectivity and the intentional attunement it generates
  • constitute a general hypothesis of many aspects of social cognition.
  • f. irancis
  • 7. Becoming a parent: What parental writings teach us 65
  • It is necessary to explore the rea of family writings in order to approach the meaning
  • of becoming a parent in different ages.
  • G. Ferrara Mori
  • 8. The interior experience of maternity 85
  • Every experience of interior maternity is unique because of the different degrees of
  • anxiety the need for a figure or reference, and the complex process of identification of
  • the pregnant woman with her own mother.
  • A, Lis et/ al
  • 9. Transition to fatherhood, 103
  • Since the 1980s, researchers and psychologists focused on analysis and bringing to the
  • fore the importance of long neglected role of the father, its development, and its
  • influences on child's development.
  • B. Alder
  • 10. The psychosomatic approach to contraceptive choice 115
  • A psychosomatic approach will promote our understanding of the complexity involved
  • in contraception choice, effectiveness, and acceptability.
  • J Boivin
  • 1 1 Coun.selling for infertility and its treatmen t 123
  • Infertility counseling isi nfluenced by both medicine and psychology; more needs to
  • be done to iiprove quality of life during treatment.
  • P. Fagandini et aL.
  • 12. The maternal ad paternal experience between sterility
  • and procreation 137
  • In the silence of the sense, it is the body that speaks of discomfort, and experiences
  • anguish and suffering in its silent yet explicit language.
  • M Mancia
  • 13. integrative functions of the brain and origins of fetal psychism:
  • Some theoretical nd clinical reflections 161
  • Motor and sensory functions and the integrative finctions of the CNS forn an appa-
  • ratus through which the fetus relates to the mother and the uterine environment in
  • strucurng the future individual's personality.
  • F, Ansermet
  • 14. Death and birth. 177
  • Can one be dead before being born? This question suggests that we really do not know
  • when life begins.
  • J Bitzer
  • 15. Prenatal counseling '. 185
  • With the implementation of ultrasound, cytogenetics, and molecular biology, medicine
  • replaced speculation with knowledge and subjective images with objective ones.
  • FP Ferrari fc al
  • 16. 'Care' in neonatal intensive therapyS 193
  • "The model of Individualized Developmental Care meets the premature child's neurode-
  • velopmental needs and favors its psychophysical and affective-relational well-being.
  • R Negeri
  • "17. Neurological development assessment of the newborn 99
  • Physical contact with the mother is the foundation for development of thought and
  • symbolization and, therefore, for the integration of Self on the child's behalf.
  • V. Valoriani et al
  • 18. Subective perspectives on the maternity experience
  • A qualitative analysis 215
  • The description of women who face maternity just as a transition period needed to
  • undergo in order to filfill the desire to become a parent seems to match current cultural
  • transbrmnations.
  • G. Music
  • 19a. Reciprocity and psychic growth: The neglect of neglect. 233
  • Children who suffer emotional neglect have probably had caregivers who were absent
  • emotionally, or who offered little to them manage both enjoyable or stressful situations.
  • 9 b. Psychic growth and reciprocity: Psychoanalytical infant observation
  • and socio-cultural factors 243
  • A lexible use of the term "psychic growth and reciprocity" needs to be adopted in
  • order to encompass child-rearing practices in Western countries as well as in other
  • cultures.
  • F. Mlonti et al.
  • 20. The complexity of birth: The Cesarean section 253
  • Understanding maternal and paternal representations is needed in order to reconsider
  • the mental reality of pregnancy.
  • P. Durning
  • 21. From foster care to parent training
  • The emergence
  • of a socioeducative approach to 'parentality' 285
  • It is necessary to take into account the great changes in family life to help parents in
  • the education of their children.
  • T Ferradji
  • 22. Migration, a risk for identity? I 301
  • Materal depression in immigrants is described as a paradigm of the puzzle of identity
  • A.M Di Vita et al.
  • 23. Scenarios of pregnancy and birth in immigrant families 31
  • The risks faced by immigrant women of situations characterized by strong emotional
  • ension are considerable and can lead to destabilization expressed with evident malaise
  • that can appear during the experience of motherhood and child care.
  • B Tillard
  • 24. Family preparations for birth 33 1
  • The filture pareits progressively enter into the idea of their futures roles in preparing
  • for the infant's arrival.
  • G Bestelti/A. Regalia
  • 21 Physioog ica p in pathological pain iatrogenic pain:
  • The quality of pain and women's experience 341
  • The procedures of assistance at delivery substantially determine the quality of the
  • experience, Hence, the importance of assisting the woman to make a truly free and
  • conscious choice.
  • F. Facchinetti et atl
  • 26. Low risk delivery today 357
  • Satisfying the need of naturalness in the birth event is still a challenge because the
  • outcome of delivery is linked to unpredictability.