Dr Catherine Vanier is a practicing analyst, and a member and former President of the Espace Analytique Association in Paris. She also works as an psychoanalyst in the neonatology service of the Hopital Delafontaine in Saint Denis and is the President of Enfance en Jeu, an association for research in paediatrics, psychoanalysis, and pedagogy. She has written numerous articles and books, including 'The Broken Piano: Lacanian Psychotherapy with Children' (Other Press, 1999). In 2010 she received France's highest award, the Knight of the Legion of Honour.

'An absorbing and thought-provoking book, which will resonate with the imagination of many readers, and which certainly should be in the hands of any medical professionals who work with babies and pregnant women. I found it of great interest and value.'- Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize winning novelist

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACRONYMS TRANSLATOR'S NOTE INTRODUCTION On being premature: babies, their doctors, and their psychoanalysts CHAPTER ONE Psychoanalysis and neonatal resuscitation CHAPTER TWO Working with families CHAPTER THREE Babies who "walk the tightrope" CHAPTER FOUR Working with the team CHAPTER FIVE Former premature babies CHAPTER SIX A place for the psychoanalyst? REFERENCES INDEX