Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year and that of the mother, father, and other significant adults. This updated edition is informed by the latest research in neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and infant observation and decades of clinical experience. It includes important new findings about how the mother’s brain undergoes massive restructuring during the transition to parenthood, a phenomenon that has been named ‘matrescence.’
Key Features
- Engages with the difficult emotional experiences often glossed over in parenting books.
- Offers insights into bonding, ambivalence about the baby, and the emotional turmoil of new parenthood.
- Provides real-life examples as a helpful resource for parents and professionals.
Additional Information
Acknowledgement and understanding of this darker side of family life offer a sense of relief that can allow parents to harness the power of knowing, owning, and sharing feelings to transform situations and break negative cycles and old ways of relating.
The book remains a helpful resource for professionals interested in ideas from psychoanalytic clinical practice including health visitors, midwives, social workers, general practitioners, paediatricians, and childcare workers.
