Born no filter: pre-term newborns’ uneasy path to the psychosomatic integration

Journal title INTERAZIONI
Author/s Ausilia Sparano
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/1
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 55-71 File size 212 KB
DOI 10.3280/INT2023-001005
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This paper collects and describes several clinical experiences with extremely pre-term born babies. They were nursed using different kind of settings: institutional, are NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) with the subsequent clinical follow-up and with the help of private thera-pies. Through these lengthwise efforts, some of the pre-term newborn’s features, such as the complexity in psychosomatic integration, were identified and better understood. The cases de-scribed show how the sensorial intrusion achieved from the intensive cares, may influence the integration process as the newborn’s development further up, entangling the parental interac-tions.

Keywords: preterm born, sensoriality, sensory self, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, follow-up.

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Ausilia Sparano, Nati senza filtro: il difficile percorso di integrazione somato-psichica dei bambini pretermine in "INTERAZIONI" 1/2023, pp 55-71, DOI: 10.3280/INT2023-001005