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 / / ed. by Giovanni Battista La Sala, Piergiuseppina Fagandini, Vanna Iori, Fiorella Monti, Isaac Blickstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Alder, B.,; Ansermet, F.,; Battista La Sala, G.,; Bestetti, G.,; Bitzer, J.,; Blickstein, I.,; Boivin, J.,; Di Vita, A. M.,; Durning, P.,; Facchinetti, F.,; Fagandini, P.,; Ferradji, T.,; Ferrara Mori, G.,; Ferrari, F.,; Francis, V.,; Gallese, V.,; Iori, V.,; Lis, A.,; Mancia, M.,; Miller, L.,; Monti, F.,; Music, G.,; Negri, R.,; Piccinini, S.,; Regalia, A.,; Tillard, B.,; Tronick, E.,; Valoriani, V.,
• HerausgeberIn: Blickstein, Isaac,; Fagandini, Piergiuseppina,; Iori, Vanna,; La Sala, Giovanni Battista,; Monti, Fiorella,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

Prominent scientists from perinatal medicine, paediatrics, psychology and sociology will meet 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 possible scientific audience. The goal is to create a dialogue between humanistic and medical perspectives with regard to conception, pregnancy and birth in an era of rapid biotechnological progress, taking different social and cultural contexts into account.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- 1. Preface: The “normal” complexities of coming into the world -- 2. Let children speak -- 3. Modern reproductive medicine and the definition of parenthood: Praeter Naturam -- 4. Self and dyadic expansion of consciousness, meaning-making, open systems, and the experience of pleasure -- 5. Birth: Between medical and human science -- 6. Intentional attunement: Mirror neurons, inter-subjectivity, and autism -- 7. Becoming a parent: What parental writings teach us -- 8. The interior experience of maternity -- 9. Transition to fatherhood -- 10. The psychosomatic approach to contraceptive choice -- 11. Counselling for infertility and its treatment -- 12. The maternal and paternal experience between sterility and procreation -- 13. Integrative functions of the brain and origins of fetal psychism: Some theoretical and clinical reflections -- 14. Death and birth -- 15. Prenatal counseling -- 16. ‘Care’ in neonatal intensive therapy -- 17. Neurological development assessment of the newborn -- 18. Subjective perspectives on the maternity experience – A qualitative analysis -- 19a. Reciprocity and psychic growth: The neglect of neglect -- 19b. Psychic growth and reciprocity: Psychoanalytical infant observation and socio-cultural factors -- 20. The complexity of birth: The Cesarean section -- 21. From foster care to parent training – The emergence of a socio-educative approach to ‘parentality’ -- 22. Migration, a risk for identity? -- 23. Scenarios of pregnancy and birth in immigrant families -- 24. Family preparations for birth -- 25. Physiological pain, pathological pain, iatrogenic pain: The quality of pain and women’s experience -- 26. Low risk delivery today