Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has been found to be effective in the context of
premature infants. Nonetheless, no studies have investigated the immediate effects of OMT …

This study aimed to investigate how mothers and infants contribute mutually to
breastfeeding. The spontaneous interactions of 20 breastfeeding dyads were video …

Aberrations of self-experience are considered a core feature of borderline personality
disorder (BPD). While prominent aetiological accounts of BPD, such as the mentalization …

More than 100 years ago, Sherrington coined the term interoception to denote sensations of
endogenous origin arising from visceral organs. Starting from this physiological description …

Background: Prenatal Learning is a topic still debated for its existence, although the concept
is well known since ancient times. Objective: The present review highlights the impact of …

Touch is a central component of mothers' and infants' everyday interactions and the
formation of a healthy mother‐infant relationship. Twelve mothers and their full‐term infants …

This book is an account of best practice in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy
(PPIP) and mentalizing, bringing the two approaches in dialogue in relation to infancy. While …

Aberrations of self-experience are considered a core feature of Borderline Personality
Disorder (BPD). While prominent etiologic accounts of BPD, such as the mentalization …

Background: Postnatal depression (PND) is the most common complication observed in
women following delivery, affecting approximately 17% of mothers. Research shows that …

In this chapter I will lay out the literature concerning the emergence of tactile perception in
human infancy. I will focus on the development of three key contributions of touch:(i) haptics …