Pregnancy

Joan Raphael-Leff

• Introduction , Conceived Fantasies , Pandora’s Box , The Placental Paradigm , The Place of Paternity , A Model of Differing Orientations , Changing Relationships , Conceived Realities – Technological Gains – and Loss , The Birth , Different Approaches to Parenting – facilitators, Regulators and Reciprocators , Journey to the Interior – Pre- and Perinatal Psychotherapy , Therapy in Early Parenthood , Epilogue , Appendix – Vulnerability During Childbearing