From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study

By Alessandra Piontelli

Book Overview

The first study of its kind, From Fetus to Child shows how observational and psychoanalytic data can offer different but complementary insights in attempting to answer fundamental questions about human development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415074371
• ISBN13: 9780415074377
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Proof that it DOES matter

I hope that the idea that an embryo has no feelings, that a fetus is just a blank slate-in-the-making is fast fading from society's belief systems. But just in case some of us still don't think we can influence a baby till it's born, take a lok at "From Fetus to Child," by psychoanalyst A. Piontelli. She sat day after day with obstetricians watching for an hour at a time how fetuses behaved in the womb. Her camera was a sonogram, peering into the uterine world to discover the truth about prenatal life. Though she is a highly educated researcher and practicing analyst and psychotherapist, Dr. Piontelli writes in a style almost as easy to follow as a newspaper human interest story, with few technical words to stumble over. One could not stumble past her eye-witness accounts of fetus after fetus, which became single or twin births and demonstrated with no doubt remaining how the earliest developmental stage studied was mirrored by the behavior of newborn, toddler, and up to the four-year-old, her age limit to study. Nature vs nurture is studied in action. And some of each appears to contribute to the behavior of the children as they grow. Expectant parents, health care workers, midwives... Here's a book I'd highly recommend.