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In this important book, Romana Negri gives a deeply moving and convincing account of the unfolding of a neuro-psychoanalytic preventative programme intended for the baby who has been born prematurely, addressing his emotional and physiological experiences, and his struggle to survive. Negri describes how she discovered that the way to find the most suitable programme of preventive environmental action was through infant-observation. Using herself as an observer and psychotherapeutic