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When a baby dies : psychotherapy for pregnancy and newborn loss /

Leon, Irving G.

When a baby dies : psychotherapy for pregnancy and newborn loss / Irving G. Leon ; foreword by Erna Furman. - xvii, 230 pages ; 22 cm ; cased.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223).

Psychology of pregnancy: -- Pregnancy as a new development stage -- Pregnancy as instinctual process -- Pregnancy as object-seeking -- Pregnancy as self-enhancement -- An integrative summary -- The psychology of perinatal loss: -- A mother's need for her baby -- Intrapsychic meanings of perinatal loss -- Interpersonal responses to perinatal loss -- Contrasting perinatal losses -- Perinatal death compared to other reproductive casualties and losses -- Typical outcomes -- Psychotherapy for perinatal loss: -- Technical aspects of treating perinatal loss -- The clinical sample -- The immediate grief : psychotherapy for recent perinatal loss -- Unresolved grief : the timeless aftermath of perinatal loss -- The refusal to grieve : bolting psychotherapy -- The inability to grieve : mixed results in psychotherapy -- Supportive psychotherapy for perinatal loss -- Psychotherapy for perinatal sibling loss: -- Childhood bereavement -- Perinatal sibling loss treated during childhood -- The scapegoated child -- A child's fantasy of infanticide -- Perceived vulnerability -- Replacement dynamics -- Psychotherapy for adult survivors of perinatal sibling loss -- The internalization of scapegoating and replacement dynamics -- Magical thinking and the conviction of guilt -- The dangers of overprotective indulgence -- The resolution of perinatal sibling loss -- Future research: -- Methodogical considerations -- Selected observations and questions.

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Perinatal death--Psychological aspects
Bereavement--Psychological aspects
Parent and child.
Brothers and sisters.
Psychotherapy.
Bereavement.
Death--in infancy & childhood
Fetal Death.
Pregnancy--psychology
Sibling Relations.
Psychology
Sociology: death & dying

Perinatal mortality Personal adjustment.

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