Handbook of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology: Integrating Research and Practice

Part I. Prenatal Psychology - Origins and Methodology.- Chapter 1. The History of Prenatal Psychology.- Chapter 2. Methodological Levels.- Part II. Empirical Research, Brain and Stress Studies.- Chapter 3. Prenatal Structural Brain Development: Genetic and Environmental Determinants.- Chapter 4. Continuity and Dialog.- Chapter 5. The Pre- and Perinatal Origins of Childhood and Adult Diseases and Personality Disorders.- Chapter 6. Transgenerational Consequences of Perinatal Experiences: Programming of Health and Disease from Mother to Child and Subsequent Generations.- Chapter 7. Prenatal Developmental Origins of Early Brain and Behavior Development, of Self-Regulation in Adolescence, and of Cognition and Central and Autonomic Nervous System Function in Adulthood.- Chapter 8. Prenatal Psychoneuroimmunology.- Chapter 9. Epigenetics.- Chapter 10. Contemporary Environmental Stressors and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes - OPERA.- Chapter 11. Traces of the Invisible World of Becoming - Epigenetics as a Molecular Correlate of Prenatal Psychology.- Part III. Psychosomatics of Pregnancy and Birth.- Chapter 12. Attachment Guided Birth Culture as a Means to Avoid Pre- and Perinatal Health Disorders.- Chapter 13. Mother-Embryo-Dialog (M-E-D).- Chapter 14. Prenatal Roots of Attachment.- Chapter 15. The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of IVF/ICSI Babies: A Clinical Report.- Chapter 16. Improving Pregnancy Outcomes: Effects of an Integrated Linkage of Obstetrics and Psychotherapy.- Chapter 17. On the Psychodynamics of Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome.- Chapter 18. A Visual Exploration of Psychodynamics in Problematic Pregnancies: Case Studies in Analytic-Aesthetic Art Therapy.- Chapter 19. Eric: Case study of an experienced one twin loss.- Chapter 20. Love, Pregnancy, Conflict and Solution: On the Way to an Understanding of Conflicted Pregnancy.- Chapter 21. Conflict of Pregnancy: Experiences from a Gynaecological and Psychotherapeutic Practice.- Chapter 22. On the History of the Pregnancy Conflict.- Part IV. Neonatology.- Chapter 23. Prenatal Bonding, the Perinatal Continuum and the Psychology of Newborn Intensive Care.- Chapter 24. Relating to the Preterm Child.- Part V. Psychotherapy.- Chapter 25. Introduction- The Prenatal Dimension in Psychotherapy.- Chapter 26. Therapy Stories for Prenatal and Perinatal Experiences: How Young Children Express Prenatal and Perinatal Experiences in Psychotherapy.- Chapter 27. Analytical Psychotherapy and the Access to Early Trauma.- Chapter 28. Pre- and Perinatal Baby Therapy: Baby Body Language.- Chapter 29. The Quality of an Original Experience of Being: The Fundamentals of Body-Psychotherapy in the Context of Prenatal Psychology.- Chapter 30. Prenatal Regression in Psychotherapy.- Chapter 31. The Arc of Life: Continuity between Conception and Death. Art therapy and Prenatal Psychology.- Chapter 32. Psychological Aspects of the First Trimester.- Chapter 33. Pre- and Periconceptional and Prenatal Psychology: Early Memories and Preverbal Approaches.- Chapter 34. Stress, Trauma, and Shock: The Failures and Successes of Cathartic Regression Therapy.- Chapter 35. Psychotherapy with infants and children.- Chapter 36. Birth Trauma: The Psychological Effects of Obstetrical Interventions.- Chapter 37. Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant-Psychotherapy: Transition to Parenthood.- Part VI. Prevention.- Chapter 38. On the Fundamentals and Necessities of Promoting Parental Competence.- Chapter 39. Introduction to Prenatal Bonding (BA)*.- Chapter 40. The Impact of Parental Conflict on the Intrauterine Realm.- Chapter 41. Post-Partum Mood Disorders: Prevention by Prenatal Bonding (BA).- Chapter 42. Family Midwifes: Early prevention built on long-term trust and