1st Edition

Pregnancy The Inside Story

By Joan Raphael-Leff Copyright 1993
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Utilising her wealth of material and experience, the author explores various aspects of 'the inside story' of pregnancy. She answers such questions as: What meanings does childbearing have in the internal world? How does a pregnant woman live with two people under her skin? What is the expectant partner's experience? Which dreams, fears and fantasies proliferate around pregnancy and birth?

    Introduction , Conceived Fantasies , Pandora’s Box , The Placental Paradigm , The Place of Paternity , A Model of Differing Orientations , Changing Relationships , Conceived Realities – Technological Gains – and Loss , The Birth , Different Approaches to Parenting – facilitators, Regulators and Reciprocators , Journey to the Interior – Pre- and Perinatal Psychotherapy , Therapy in Early Parenthood , Epilogue , Appendix – Vulnerability During Childbearing

    Biography

    Joan Raphael-Leff