Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the beginning -- The psychology of pregnancy -- Circumventing primary maternal preoccupation -- Delivery trauma and the maternal introject -- Therapeutic technique in perinatal consultations -- The external frame at the Child Health Centre -- Supervising nurses at the Child Health Centre -- The internal frame at the Child Health Centre -- From panic to pleasure : therapy with Debbie and Mae -- Parent-infant psychotherapy : a review of clinical methods -- Parent-infant psychotherapy : RCTs and follow-up studies -- Brief interventions with parental couples, I -- Brief interventions with parental couples, II -- Extending the field to therapy with toddlers and parents -- A baby's mind : empirical observation versus speculative theorizing -- Naming the nameless : on anxiety in babies. I, Freud -- Naming the nameless : on anxiety in babies. II, After Freud -- Babies and their defences -- Metaphors in parent-infant therapy -- A vision for the future.

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