Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles

Psychoanalyst Emanuela Quagliata has gathered Italian and British clinicians to address the emotional terrain that most parenting books ignore entirely: recurrent miscarriage, premature birth, infertility, postnatal depression, and parenting in the shadow of a previous child's death. Each contributor draws on real therapeutic observation rather than pure theory, which gives the book a grounded quality rare in academic clinical literature. At 138 pages it covers substantial territory efficiently. The honest caveat is that this is strictly a specialist volume — written for mental health professionals and psychoanalytic researchers, not general readers navigating these experiences personally. The Karnac/Routledge framing, the psychoanalytic lens, and the dense clinical language all signal that. For the professionals it's written for, it fills a genuine gap in the perinatal mental health literature.