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| List of Contributors | xiii |
| Acknowledgements | xvii |
| General Introduction Paola Mariotti | 1 |
| Part One: Mothering in Body and Mind Paola Mariotti | 45 |
| Chapter 1 Primary Maternal Preoccupation D. W. Winnicott | 59 |
| Chapter 2 Peaceful Islands and Dangerous Jungles - Pregnancy: Opportunity Or Impediment. A Psychoanalyst's View. Dana Birksted-Breen | 67 |
| Chapter 3 Shame and Maternal Ambivalence Rozsika Parker | 85 |
| Chapter 4 The Pregnant Mother and the Body Image of the Daughter Rosemary H. Balsam | 113 |
| Chapter 5 On Motherhood Erna Furman | 139 |
| Part Two: Subfertility and Reproductive Technologies Paola Mariotti | 159 |
| Chapter 6 The ‘Medea Fantasy’: An Unconscious Determinant of Psychogenic Sterility Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber | 169 |
| Chapter 7 The Baby Makers: Conscious and Unconscious Psychological Reactions to Infertility and ‘Baby-Making’—An in-Depth Single Case Study Joan Raphael-Leff | 205 |
| Chapter 8 Infertility in the Age of Technology Sharon Zalusky Blum | 231 |
| Part Three: When Not All Goes Well Paola Mariotti | 255 |
| Chapter 9 Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Abortion: A Psychoanalytic Perspective Dinora Pines | 267 |
| Chapter 10 Postpartum Depression and Symbiotic Illusion Hendrika Halberstadt-Freud | 279 |
| Chapter 11 Keeping Envy in Mind: The Vicissitudes of Envy in Adolescent Motherhood Alessandra Lemma | 306 |
| Chapter 12 “What is Genuine Maternal Love?” Clinical Considerations and Technique in Psychoanalytic Parent-infant Psychotherapy Tessa Baradon | 323 |
| Chapter 13 Infant-Parent Psychotherapy on Behalf of a Child in a Critical Nutritional State Selma Fraiberg and Edna Adelson | 352 |
| Chapter 14 Bodies Across Generations and Cycles Of Abuse Estela Welldon | 381 |