Offers the prospect of early detection of prodromal signs of autism and the possibility of effective therapeutic mitigation of the parents' unbearable predicament of perpetually failing to engage a seemingly unresponsive infant.

Product Description: · ”...an impressive international collection of professional voices that will echo beyond the first hearing.”--Don Campbell, President of the British Psychoanalytical SocietyThis volume includes over ninety contributions from analysts and psychotherapists world wide, writing on work behind and beyond the couch, with unique emphasis on the mind-body matrix and its replenishment between sessions...read more

This work explains how a couple becomes a family. The author, a social psychologist and psychoanalyst, explores the dreams, fears and fantasies that surround pregnancy and birth. She also shows how exposure to the naked needs of infants affects parents and how parents' concerns affect infants. (view table of contents)

Since Freud, all psychoanalysts have been aware of the constraints of gender which are manifested as transference in the therapeutic process.In Female Experience, fifteen contributors from different theoretical groupings discuss their experiences in working with female patients, covering subjects such as:* sexual abuse* eating disorders* childbearing* perinatal loss and postnatal depression* the mother and child relationshipThe analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. The insight this gives into the determinants of gender identity will be of interest to practising psychotherapists both male and female, and to gender studies and therapy students.