Bertrand G. Cramer

Never before has research on newborn behavior and parent-infant interaction been fully integrated with psychoanalytic insight into parents' emotions and fantasies. This book provide a vivid glimpse of the parents' daydreams and narcissistic wishes which grow into a desire for a child, and they show how these feelings develop into importan

Defining the demands and expectations that parents place upon their offspring from the very beginning, this book explains how even the youngest can adapt to a role that is expected of them. It demonstrates how parents can transfer problems from their own childhood into this new relationship.