From Fetus to Child by Alessandra Piontelli

From Fetus to Child by Alessandra Piontelli

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From Fetus to Child by Alessandra Piontelli

The first study of its kind, From Fetus to Child shows how observational and psychoanalytic data can offer different but complementary insights in attempting to answer fundamental questions about human development.

I found this book exciting and instructive and would recommend it as excellent bedtime or holiday reading - I couldn't put it down - Twins, Triplets and More

Piontelli's book is gripping partly because it is about the mystery of our origins and partly because of the new-world-beheld wonder at observing the foetus in it natural environment. - Journal of Analytical Psychology

As a medical practitioner, child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Piontelli is not only eminently qualified to undertake such a task but manages to integrate the knowledge and skills garnered from each of these professions in a most creative way. - British Association of Psychotherapists Review


... this is a unique and refreshing text. - American Journal of Psychiatry 150 7 July 93

I found this book exciting and instructive and would recommend it as excellent bedtime or holiday reading - I couldn't put it down. - Twins, Triplets and More

Dr Piontelli's work raises radical new questions about pre-natal experience and its effect on post-natal life. - Therapy Weekly, March 1993

This book makes a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis. - International Journal of Nursing Studies

As a medical practitioner, child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Piontelli is not only eminently qualified to undertake such a task but manages to integrate the knowledge and skills garnered from each of these professions in a most creative way. - British Association of Psychotherapists Review

Piontelli's book is gripping partly because it is about the mystery of our origins and partly because of the new-world-beheld wonder at observing the foetus in it natural environment. - Journal of Analytical Psychology

After graduating in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan, Italy, Alessandra Piontelli qualified as a specialist in Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Parma. For more than a decade she worked at the Tavistock Clinic, London, where her responsibilities included teaching child neurology and psychiatry. In 1983 she was appointed Visiting Professor by the Department of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Milan. Since 1990 she has worked at the First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Milan, where she is involved in research into fetal and neonatal behavior and physiology and maternal behavior during pregnancy and the early post-partum period. In 2007 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and, in 2011, Visiting Professor and Master in Pre-Natal and Peri-Natal Education at the University of Valencia, Spain. Her previous books include Backwards in Time: a Study in Infant Observation (Karnac Books, 1986), From Fetus to Child (Routledge, 1992), Twins: From Fetus to Child (Routledge, 2002), and Twins in the World (McMillan-Palgrave, 2008).

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ISBN 13 9780415074377
ISBN 10 0415074371
Title From Fetus to Child
Author Alessandra Piontelli
Series The New Library Of Psychoanalysis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1992-04-02
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.