Coming into the World

Giovanni B. La Sala, Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Piergiuseppina Fagandini, Arcispedale S. Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Vanna Iori , Catholic University of Milan, Italy; Fiorella Monti , Bologna University, Italy; Isaac Blickstein, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.

• I. Blickstein: Modern reproductive medicine and the definition of parenthood: Praeter Naturam; E. Z. Tronick: Self and dyadic expansion of consciousness, meaning-making, open systems and the experience of pleasure; V. Iori: Birth: between medical and human science; V. Gallese: Intentional attunement: mirror neurons, inter-subjectivity, and autism; V. Francis: Becoming a parent: what parental writings teach us; G. Ferrara Mori: The interior experience of maternity; Adriana Lis et al.: Transition to fatherhood; B. Alder: The psychosomatic approach to contraceptive choice; J. Boivin: Counselling for infertility and its treatment; P. Fagandini et al.: The maternal and paternal experience between sterility and procreation; M. Mancia: The integrative functions of the brain and the origins of fetal psychism: some theoretical and clinical reflections; F. Ansermet: Death and birth; J. Bitzer: Prenatal counselling; F. Ferrari et al.: 'Care' in neonatal intensive therapy; R. Negri: Neurological development assessment of the newborn; V. Valoriani et al.: Subjective perspectives on the maternity experience - a qualitative analysis; G. Music: Reciprocity and psychic growth: the neglect of neglect; L. Miller: Psychic growth and reciprocity: psychoanalytical infant observation and socio-cultural factors; F. Monti: The complexity of birth: the Cesarean section; P. Durning: From foster care to parent training - the emergence of a socio-educative approach to 'parentality'; T. Ferradji: Migration, a risk for identity?; A.M. Di Vita: Scenarios of pregnancy and birth in immigrant families; B. Tillard: Family preparations for birth; G. Bestetti/ A.Regalia: Physiological pain, pathological pain, iatrogenic pain: the quality of pain and women's experience; F. Facchinetti et al.: Low risk delivery today