1;Table of Contents;9 2;1. Preface: The "normal" complexities of coming into the world;15 3;2. Let children speak;17 4;3. Modern reproductive medicine and the definition of parenthood: Praeter Naturam;19 5;4. Self and dyadic expansion of consciousness, meaning-making, open systems, and the experience of pleasure;27 6;5. Birth: Between medical and human science;39 7;6. Intentional attunement: Mirror neurons, inter-subjectivity, and autism;59 8;7. Becoming a parent: What parental writings teach us;79 9;8. The interior experience of maternity;99 10;9. Transition to fatherhood;117 11;10. The psychosomatic approach to contraceptive choice;129 12;11. Counselling for infertility and its treatment;137 13;12. The maternal and paternal experience between sterility and procreation;151 14;13. Integrative functions of the brain and origins of fetal psychism: Some theoretical and clinical reflections;175 15;14. Death and birth;191 16;15. Prenatal counseling;199 17;16. 'Care' in neonatal intensive therapy;207 18;17. Neurological development assessment of the newborn;213 19;18. Subjective perspectives on the maternity experience - A qualitative analysis;229 20;19a. Reciprocity and psychic growth: The neglect of neglect;247 21;19b. Psychic growth and reciprocity: Psychoanalytical infant observation and socio-cultural factors;257 22;20. The complexity of birth: The Cesarean section;267 23;21. From foster care to parent training - The emergence of a socio-educative approach to 'parentality';299 24;22. Migration, a risk for identity?;315 25;23. Scenarios of pregnancy and birth in immigrant families;325 26;24. Family preparations for birth;345 27;25. Physiological pain, pathological pain, iatrogenic pain: The quality of pain and women's experience;355 28;26. Low risk delivery today;371