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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
From birth to the couch: readiness is all
Ken Robinson1, Julianna Vamos2
1Northumbria University, 25 Hawthorn Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4DE, UK. ken25rob@gmail.com.
Abstract:
When there are obstacles in the way of being prepared for birth or psychological birth, whether in a perinatal situation or in the analysis of an adult, the analyst must create the conditions in which parents, baby and patient can realize their potentiality for developing. The analyst is bearer of hope in what can feel to be a hopeless world. We offer two clinical vignettes to show the importance of respect, timing and tact in the process of facilitating the freedom to move on towards a creative future. Both vignettes illustrate unconscious communication in action.
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