Prenatal Bonding Analysis

The Invisible Umbilical Cord

György Hidas, Judit Vollner, Jenő Raffai

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032364230
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000815665
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book presents a novel psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic method which enables expectant mothers to establish communication with their unborn babies.

After an exploration of the root aspects of pre- and perinatal psychology and psychoanalysis, details of the practice of prenatal bonding analysis are introduced. The volume concludes with 15 interviews where mothers who experienced the bonding analysis give first-hand accounts of their encounters.

With its theoretical, practical and testimonial threefold structure, the book aims at reaching out to both specialists and a general readership, especially prospective parents.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 The intelligent foetus
• 2 The ultrasonographic observation of foetal life
• 3 The effect of maternal stress and anxiety on the foetus and child
• 4 Later effects of unwanted pregnancies
• 5 The psyche of the foetus in the mirror of psychoanalytic theories
• 6 Approaches to the unconscious
• 7 The method of mother–foetus bonding analysis
• 8 Intrauterine encounters
• Tables
• References
• Index