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Talking to Babies: Psychoanalysis on a Maternity Ward

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In Myriam Szejer's book, Talking to Babies, we are taken into her world of clinical work with babies and families. Her perspective opens new vistas of babies, family dynamics, and ways of healing at the very beginning of life. One of the most important current tenets in early development understanding is that we need a coherent narrative of our human experiences (Dr. Daniel Siegel's book, Parenting From Within), that our ability to make sense of our life experience is very important. Dr. Szejer's book brings to light her experience that babies too, need their stories, their coherent narratives. Helping to find the underlying story and speak it, helps babies thrive. Her book fits within the larger field of prenatal and perinatal psychology in which we find babies are much more conscious, aware, and able to understand and communicate much more than what was previously thought possible. As a fellow baby clinician and professor in this field, I am grateful for Dr. Szejer's work and that her book has been translated into English. Wendy Anne McCarty, Ph.D., author of Welcoming Consciousness and Being with Babies.