Main description:

Utilising her wealth of material and experience, the author explores various aspects of 'the inside story' of pregnancy. She answers such questions as: What meanings does childbearing have in the internal world? How does a pregnant woman live with two people under her skin? What is the expectant partner's experience? Which dreams, fears and fantasies proliferate around pregnancy and birth?

Contents:

Introduction , Conceived Fantasies , Pandora's Box , The Placental Paradigm , The Place of Paternity , A Model of Differing Orientations , Changing Relationships , Conceived Realities - Technological Gains - and Loss , The Birth , Different Approaches to Parenting - facilitators, Regulators and Reciprocators , Journey to the Interior - Pre- and Perinatal Psychotherapy , Therapy in Early Parenthood , Epilogue , Appendix - Vulnerability During Childbearing