Frontiers in Psychiatry (Jul 2023)

The genesis of perinatal clinical psychology and its contemporary issues

  • Sylvain Missonnier,
  • Sylvain Missonnier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1090365
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14

Abstract

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The main aim of French clinical psychology is to explain the psychic processes of transformation, to which the subject is central. In this context, transformations in the perinatal period open an innovating field in perinatal clinical psychology focused on the conscious/subconscious, subjective/inter-subjective psychic reality of a subject who is in the process of becoming (or becoming once again) a parent and being born a human.

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