Coming into the world : a dialogue between medical and human sciences : International Congress "The 'Normal' Complexities of Coming into the World", Modena, Italy, 28-30, September 2006 / editors, Giovanni Battista La Sala [and others].

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Machine derived contents note: G. Batasta La Sala -- 1. Preface: The "normal" complexities of comi.ng into the world 1 -- The cry of the newborn represents the "normal" as well as the "mysterious" complexity -- of coming into the world. -- S. Piccinini -- 2. Let children speak 3 -- It is necessary to reunite disciplines since each on it own way is helpless and, therefore, -- transcultural soidarity is needed. -- I Blickstein -- 3. Modern reproductive medicine and the definition of parenthood: -- Praeter Naturam 5 -- ART changed the definition of fatherhood, motherhood, and parenthood; this calls for -- open-iminndedness to these unnatural circumstances. -- E. Tronick -- 4. Self and dyadic expansion of consciousness, meaning-making, open -- systems, and the experience of pleasure 13 -- When new meanings are self-created or co-created, the individual experiences an -- expansin of her own state of consciousness, a feeling of being bigger and a connected- -- ness to t e action, idea or person on which or with whom the new meaning was made. -- V Jori -- 5. Birth: Between medical and human science 25 -- A new qualification of culture and practices connected to childbirth require retrieval of -- the fundamental relationship between medical and human science. -- V. Gallese -- 6. Intentional attunement: Mirror neurons, intersubjectivity, and autism 45 -- The shared diversity of inter-subjectivity and the intentional attunement it generates -- constitute a general hypothesis of many aspects of social cognition. -- f. irancis -- 7. Becoming a parent: What parental writings teach us 65 -- It is necessary to explore the rea of family writings in order to approach the meaning -- of becoming a parent in different ages. -- G. Ferrara Mori -- 8. The interior experience of maternity 85 -- Every experience of interior maternity is unique because of the different degrees of -- anxiety the need for a figure or reference, and the complex process of identification of -- the pregnant woman with her own mother. -- A, Lis et/ al -- 9. Transition to fatherhood, 103 -- Since the 1980s, researchers and psychologists focused on analysis and bringing to the -- fore the importance of long neglected role of the father, its development, and its -- influences on child's development. -- B. Alder -- 10. The psychosomatic approach to contraceptive choice 115 -- A psychosomatic approach will promote our understanding of the complexity involved -- in contraception choice, effectiveness, and acceptability. -- J Boivin -- 1 1 Coun.selling for infertility and its treatmen t 123 -- Infertility counseling isi nfluenced by both medicine and psychology; more needs to -- be done to iiprove quality of life during treatment. -- P. Fagandini et aL. -- 12. The maternal ad paternal experience between sterility -- and procreation 137 -- In the silence of the sense, it is the body that speaks of discomfort, and experiences -- anguish and suffering in its silent yet explicit language. -- M Mancia -- 13. integrative functions of the brain and origins of fetal psychism: -- Some theoretical nd clinical reflections 161 -- Motor and sensory functions and the integrative finctions of the CNS forn an appa- -- ratus through which the fetus relates to the mother and the uterine environment in -- strucurng the future individual's personality. -- F, Ansermet -- 14. Death and birth. 177 -- Can one be dead before being born? This question suggests that we really do not know -- when life begins. -- J Bitzer -- 15. Prenatal counseling '. 185 -- With the implementation of ultrasound, cytogenetics, and molecular biology, medicine -- replaced speculation with knowledge and subjective images with objective ones. -- FP Ferrari fc al -- 16. 'Care' in neonatal intensive therapyS 193 -- "The model of Individualized Developmental Care meets the premature child's neurode- -- velopmental needs and favors its psychophysical and affective-relational well-being. -- R Negeri -- "17. Neurological development assessment of the newborn 99 -- Physical contact with the mother is the foundation for development of thought and -- symbolization and, therefore, for the integration of Self on the child's behalf. -- V. Valoriani et al -- 18. Subective perspectives on the maternity experience -- A qualitative analysis 215 -- The description of women who face maternity just as a transition period needed to -- undergo in order to filfill the desire to become a parent seems to match current cultural -- transbrmnations. -- G. Music -- 19a. Reciprocity and psychic growth: The neglect of neglect. 233 -- Children who suffer emotional neglect have probably had caregivers who were absent -- emotionally, or who offered little to them manage both enjoyable or stressful situations. -- 9 b. Psychic growth and reciprocity: Psychoanalytical infant observation -- and socio-cultural factors 243 -- A lexible use of the term "psychic growth and reciprocity" needs to be adopted in -- order to encompass child-rearing practices in Western countries as well as in other -- cultures. -- F. Mlonti et al. -- 20. The complexity of birth: The Cesarean section 253 -- Understanding maternal and paternal representations is needed in order to reconsider -- the mental reality of pregnancy. -- P. Durning -- 21. From foster care to parent training -- The emergence -- of a socioeducative approach to 'parentality' 285 -- It is necessary to take into account the great changes in family life to help parents in -- the education of their children. -- T Ferradji -- 22. Migration, a risk for identity? I 301 -- Materal depression in immigrants is described as a paradigm of the puzzle of identity -- A.M Di Vita et al. -- 23. Scenarios of pregnancy and birth in immigrant families 31 -- The risks faced by immigrant women of situations characterized by strong emotional -- ension are considerable and can lead to destabilization expressed with evident malaise -- that can appear during the experience of motherhood and child care. -- B Tillard -- 24. Family preparations for birth 33 1 -- The filture pareits progressively enter into the idea of their futures roles in preparing -- for the infant's arrival. -- G Bestelti/A. Regalia -- 21 Physioog ica p in pathological pain iatrogenic pain: -- The quality of pain and women's experience 341 -- The procedures of assistance at delivery substantially determine the quality of the -- experience, Hence, the importance of assisting the woman to make a truly free and -- conscious choice. -- F. Facchinetti et atl -- 26. Low risk delivery today 357 -- Satisfying the need of naturalness in the birth event is still a challenge because the -- outcome of delivery is linked to unpredictability.

Prominent scientists from perinatal medicine, paediatrics, psychology and sociology met in Modena, Italy to explore birth as a complex psychological experience for mother, father and child. The proceedings of this interdisciplinary congress are here published in English to reach the broadest possible scientific audience. The goal is to create a dialogue between humanistic and medical perspectives with regard to conception, pregnancy and birth in an era of rapid biotechnological progress, taking different social and cultural contexts into account.

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