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Talking to babies : healing with words on a maternity ward
- Title
- Talking to babies : healing with words on a maternity ward / Myriam Szejer ; with the collaboration of Hervé Bernard ; translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd.
- Author
- Szejer, Myriam.
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Publisher description
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- Additional Authors
- Bernard, Hervé.
- Description
- x, 257 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Myriam Szejer talks to newborns. For over a decade she has worked in the maternity ward of a hospital outside Paris. Called in by hospital staff when a baby or its parents are suffering, Szejer uses the psychoanalytic techniques of careful listening mad talking to reach failure-to-thrive and other suffering newborns and reverse their conditions. Talking to Babies is the story of her important work." "Talking to Babies is the first book to show how the "talking cure" can help infants and their parents. Post-partum depression in mothers, failure-to-thrive in babies - these problems might be approached quite differently if maternity wards incorporated some of Szejer's practices. High-tech interventions are all too common in American maternity wards: Talking to Babies offers a more humane route for restoring health."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Des mots pour naître. English
- Alternative Title
- Des mots pour naître.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translation of: Des mots pour naître. Paris : Gallimard, c1997.
- Contents
- Preface / Rene Frydman -- Introduction : "we hereby announce ..." -- 1. The interests of the baby -- 2. A child is born at least twice -- 3. Speech, language, and memory in the newborn -- 4. Doing psychoanalysis on a maternity ward -- 5. From birth of life's limbo : a closer look at the baby blues -- 6. Confidential childbirth : the child given up at birth -- Epilogue : the choice to live.
- ISBN
- 0807021148 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003014846
- OCLC
- 52554209
- ocm52554209
- SCSB-5202811
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries