This book is devoted to a topic that is fundamental value for psychoanalytic research; namely a quest for the roots of psychopathological impediments and disorders as well as the related question as to what extent these developmental disturbances can be avoided by adequate early parenting.
Preface -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Perspectives -- The
prevention sciences of early development and challenging opportunities for
psychoanalysis -- Out-reaching psychoanalysis: a contribution to early
prevention for children-at-risk? -- Minds shaped through relationships: the
emerging neurobiology of parenting -- Early Prevention Programmes -- Fraiberg
in Parisearly prevention through a mental health programme for vulnerable
families: preliminary findings and what we have learned in conducting the
French CAPEDP study -- Understanding how traumatised mothers process their
toddlers affective communication under stress: towards preventive
intervention for families at high risk for intergenerational violence -- The
triadic perspective for parenting and early child development: from research
to prevention and therapy -- Transition to parenthood: studies of
intersubjectivity in mothers and fathers -- The First Steps: a
culture-sensitive preventive developmental guidance for immigrant parents and
infants -- The evolution of an early parenting education programme, its
follow-up, and its implications -- German perspectives on Henri Parens
pioneering work in Philadelphia: the development of attachment-based
parenting programmes -- Interdisciplinary Research in Frankfurt -- Individual
Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk: objectives and agenda
of a transdisciplinary research centre -- History and concept development of
psychoanalytically based prevention projects in preschool institutions of the
city of Frankfurt: conducted by the Sigmund-Freud-Institut and the Institute
for Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy -- Early prevention in
day-care centres with children at riskthe EVA research project -- First
Steps: an integration project for infants with an immigrant
backgroundconceptualisation and first impressions -- Cognitive stimulation
and parental sensitivity in toddlers homes: how do children and parents
interact and how effective are trainings for parents? -- Just wait and dont
upset yourself: when children are exposed to poverty in their daily lives --
Clinical Applications -- Through symptoms to subjects: the family physician
and the psychologist together in primary care -- From nameless dread to
bearable fear: the psychoanalytic treatment of a twenty-two-month-old child
-- A preventive attachment intervention with adolescent mothers: elaboration
of the intervention
N. Emde, Robert
