Table Of ContentEARLY PARENTING AND
PREVENTION OF DISORDER
Developments in Psychoanalysis Series
Series Editors: Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, and Liz Allison
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EARLY PARENTING
AND PREVENTION
OF DISORDER
Psychoanalytic Research
at Interdisciplinary Frontiers
Edited by
Robert N. Emde and
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
PREFACE xix
Peter Fonagy
FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xxiii
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
PART I: PERSPECTIVES
CHAPTER ONE
The prevention sciences of early development and challenging
opportunities for psychoanalysis 3
Robert N. Emde
CHAPTER TWO
“Out-reaching psychoanalysis”: a contribution to early
prevention for “children-at-risk”? 20
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
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CHAPTER THREE
Minds shaped through relationships: the emerging
neurobiology of parenting 50
Helena J. V. Rutherford and Linda C. Mayes
PART II: EARLY PREVENTION PROGRAMMES
CHAPTER FOUR
Fraiberg in Paris—early prevention through a mental health
programme for vulnerable families: preliminary findings
and what we have learned in conducting the French
CAPEDP study 73
Antoine Guedeney, Nicole Guedeney, Susana Tereno, Romain
Dugravier, Thomas Saias, Florence Tubach, Jaqueline Wendland,
Bertrand Welniarz, Alain Haddad, and Tim Greacen
CHAPTER FIVE
Understanding how traumatised mothers process their
toddlers’ affective communication under stress: towards
preventive intervention for families at high risk for
intergenerational violence 90
Daniel S. Schechter and Sandra Rusconi Serpa
CHAPTER SIX
The triadic perspective for parenting and early
child development: from research to prevention and
therapy 118
Kai von Klitzing
CHAPTER SEVEN
Transition to parenthood: studies of intersubjectivity in
mothers and fathers 129
Massimo Ammaniti, Cristina Trentini, Francesca Menozzi,
and Renata Tambelli
CHAPTER EIGHT
The First Steps: a culture-sensitive preventive developmental
guidance for immigrant parents and infants 165
Patrick Meurs
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CHAPTER NINE
The evolution of an early parenting education programme,
its follow-up, and its implications 186
Henri Parens
CHAPTER TEN
German perspectives on Henri Parens’ pioneering work
in Philadelphia: the development of attachment-based
parenting programmes 200
Karl Heinz Brisch
PART III: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN FRANKFURT
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Individual Development and Adaptive Education
of Children at Risk: objectives and agenda of a
transdisciplinary research centre 215
Marcus Hasselhorn, Ulrike Hartmann, Sonja Reuße, and Andreas Gold
CHAPTER TWELVE
History and concept development of psychoanalytically based
prevention projects in preschool institutions of the city
of Frankfurt: conducted by the Sigmund-Freud-Institut
and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapy 226
Angelika Wolff
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Early prevention in day-care centres with children at
risk—the EVA research project 242
Verena Neubert, Katrin Luise Laezer, Lorena Hartmann,
Tamara Fischmann, and Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
First Steps: an integration project for infants with an immigrant
background—conceptualisation and first impressions 260
Judith Lebiger-Vogel, Annette Busse, Korinna Fritzemeyer,
Claudia Burkhardt-Mussmann, Luca-Sandra Paul, and
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Cognitive stimulation and parental sensitivity in toddlers’
homes: how do children and parents interact and how
effective are trainings for parents? 283
Silke Hertel, Andreas Eickhorst, Miriam Kachler, Nadine Zeidler,
Katharina Wolf, Marlis Abrie-Kuhn, and Manfred Cierpka
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Just wait and don’t upset yourself: when children are
exposed to poverty in their daily lives 297
Sabine Andresen
PART IV: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Through symptoms to subjects: the family physician and the
psychologist together in primary care 309
Luigi Solano
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
From nameless dread to bearable fear: the psychoanalytic
treatment of a twenty-two-month-old child 328
Agneta Sandell
CHAPTER NINETEEN
A preventive attachment intervention with adolescent
mothers: elaboration of the intervention 343
Frances Thomson-Salo
INDEX 358
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Marlis Abrie-Kuhn is a research assistant at the German Institute
for International Educational Research (DIPF) and at the Center for
Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of
Children at Risk (IDeA) in Frankfurt/Main.
Massimo Ammaniti, MD, is a child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst IPA,
Professor of developmental psychopathology, “sapienza” University of
Rome, Italy.
Sabine Andresen is a Research Professor for social work and family
research at Frankfurt University. In Frankfurt she is a researcher at
the Loewe Center for “Individual Development and Adaptive Edu-
cation of Children at Risk” (IDeA). One main focus of her research is
the wellbeing of children from an international perspective alongside
threats to childhood posed by poverty, sexual abuse, and precarious life
situations.
Karl Heinz Brisch, MD, is a specialist in child and adolescent
psychiatry and psycho-therapy, adult psychiatry, specialist in
psychotherapeutic medicine, psychoanalysis, and group psychoanalysis.
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