This book centers on the psychological and emotional experiences of a pregnant woman and her family—the full web of relationships in which she lives—during pregnancy and hospitalization in the obstetrics ward.
Particularly valuable for professionals in the field, the book draws on highly specialized expertise to illuminate the nuanced terrain of pregnancy and childbirth in language that remains clear and accessible. It handles difficult subjects with equal precision: miscarriage, fetal death, voluntary termination of pregnancy, and cases where prenatal diagnosis reveals fetal abnormality—along with the emotional weight such situations carry. These are moments when psychology plays a genuinely crucial role.
Psychologists, psychotherapists, gynecologists, midwives, and child psychiatrists contribute their theoretical and practical experience, sharing clinical examples of the path to parenthood. Their shared aim is to "understand the interplay between different approaches and establish a common framework and shared practice."
Cristina Tersigni, 2006