From Pregnancy to Motherhood

"Gina Ferrara Mori and her impressive contributors have given a great gift to all those who care deeply about mothers/families and babies in their collection " From Pregnancy to Motherhood: Psychoanalytic Aspects of the Beginning of the Mother-Child Relationship." As a psychoanalyst, a faculty member of an Infant and Young Child Observation Program as well as a couple and family therapist, I look forward to adding this wonderful collection to our students' reading lists to help them gain deeper appreciation and understanding of the development of internal motherhood and fatherhood -- and of the beginnings of becoming/creating a family."- Sharon Alperovitz, MSW, founding member and core faculty of Washington School of Psychiatry's Infant and Young Child Observation Program, Washington, D. C. She is Teaching Psychoanalyst of the Washington, D. C. Institute for Psychoanalysis, Co-Chair of the New Directions in Psychoanalytic Writing and faculty member of the Contemporary Couple and Family Program of Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.

"Esther Bick's inspired invention of psychoanalytic Infant Observation has had extensive international impact over more than 60 years.This book documents the work of a group in Florence who have worked on the concept of "internal motherhood" using observational and clinical data.It is an impressive demonstration of the research potential of group study, and brings to an English speaking readership an example of how Bick's ideas have been imaginatively developed in Europe, and integrated with contemporary psychoanalytic understandings of femininity and the mother/child relationship."- Margaret Rustin, Honorary Consultant Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has published widely about observation and child psychotherapy. Her most recent book, jointly edited with Simonetta Adamo, is" Young Child Observation" Karnac, 2013.