Humanizing the impostor: Object relations and illness equations in the neonatal intensive care unit

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-28

  Landzelius, Kyra Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intersubjectivity; Medical technology; Mother child bonding; Transitional object

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; HEALING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBJECT RELATION; PLAY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; RECREATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS;

EID: 0141463956     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023670020178     Document Type: Review

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