Giuliana Mieli

Do Mothers Dream of Electric Babies? (eBook, PDF)

The Importance of Emotional Bonds for Growing, Nurturing, and Educating

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

We live in a society that ignores and disregards attachment needs and feelings. Starting from this consideration, the author describes the stages of human emotional development in a lucid narrative which is both scientifically rigorous and grounded in clinical examples. Mieli critically investigates the origins of a specific weariness towards feelings which is reflected in the history of Western philosophy and science, resulting in a cultural disregard of emotional needs. The book powerfully suggests that if undeterred, this disregard may lead to severe consequences for the future of our society. Research compellingly shows that responding to fundamental emotional needs is a psycho-biological requirement necessary for human wellbeing and survival itself. Mieli contends that its oversight has a counterpart in the dramatic rise of mental distress in contemporary society, as well as in the difficulties that are increasingly encountered around maternity, fertility, and parenting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429666025
• Artikelnr.: 55265751

Autorenporträt

Giuliana Mieli, PhD, DClinPsych, Psychotherapist, after working in the first mental health community services in the 1970s, has been a consultant in the maternity wards of St Gerardo Hospital (Monza) and at St Giuseppe Hospital (Milan) in Italy. Aside from clinical practice, she has dedicated herself to the psycho-education of medical and paramedical staff in various local health centres, and to training and supervising freshly graduated clinical psychologists and psychotherapists. She is currently based in Florence.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgement
About the Author
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: My clinical experience in a maternity ward
Chapter Two: From undifferentiated to differentiated. Birth, growth, and the achievement of independence: an emotional perspective
Chapter Three: The need for a cultural revolution
Chapter Four: A society based on the denial of attachment needs and all things emotional
Chapter Five: An emotional outlook on motherhood, or: what can really be done?
Chapter Six: Conclusions
Bibliography
References
Index