Babies in Intensive Care: Born and Reborn (with the collaboration of Martine Bloch) / Bébés en réanimation: Naître et renaître (avec la collaboration de Martine Bloch) - Softcover

Golse, Bernard; Gosme-Séguret, Sylvie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2738109284 ISBN 13: 9782738109286

Publisher: Odile Jacob, 2001

Synopsis

Today, about 10% of all infants spend at least some time in an intensive care unit I'mediately after birth. In France, this concerns 50,000 to 80,000 infants annually, the most frequent cause being premature births. This means that a significant number of babies begin their lives in a highly technical, medical environment, far from a home and family environment. How are these children affected by such early medical treatment? What is the impact on their psychic growth and development? Will the rest of their lives be marked by their early experience of pain or by the intense, often chaotic, stimulation of their senses, during their hospitalisation? And, most importantly, what can be done to make them feel better both now and in the future? Bernard Golse tells the moving stories of five children, Marie, Camille, Sébastien, Marc and Alexandre, all of whom were hospitalised shortly after birth. Their experiences show that despite the technical progress made in the area of neonatal intensive care, the human aspect is seriously lacking and must be reconsidered.The emotional involvement of all concerned must be taken into account in order to create a warm environment for babies in poor health, their anxious parents and the medical staff whose professional as well as personal assistance is called upon.A child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Bernard Golse heads the child psychiatry department at the Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul, in Paris. He teaches child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Paris V.

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About the Author

Pédopsychiatre, psychanalyste, chef de service à l'hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Bernard Golse est professeur de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent à l'université Paris-V. Psychologue clinicienne, Sylvie Gosme-Seguret exerce à l'hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. Mostafa Mokhtari est pédiatre réanimateur à l'hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul.

Edition details

• Publisher: Odile Jacob
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2738109284
• ISBN 13: 9782738109286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240