Fachliteratur

Artikel und Bücher auf Französisch:
Die erste Studie über anonyme Geburt ist von Dr. Catherine Bonnet, einer Kinderpsychiaterin aus Frankreich. Die Ergebnisse ihrer Untersuchungen sind in zwei Büchern zusammengefasst. Diese sind bisher leider nur auf Französisch erhältlich.

 

Geste d’amour, l’accouchement sous X

Les enfants du secret

Bonnet C. Adoption at birth: prevention against abandonment or neonaticide. Child Abuse and Neglect, The International Journal 1993; 17 (4): 501-513. 

Abstract : A study was carried out between 1987 and 1989 to try to understand why women choose to give their infants up for adoption at birth and the psychodynamics of this decision. The interviews of 22 female subjects were based on psychoanalytic methodology. They revealed that the motives behind such a choice arose from a specific set of symptoms: The denial of pregnancy and fantasies of violence towards the fetus. These symptoms were the result of psychological and sexual traumas that the subjects experienced during their childhood in negligent or incestuous families. Eighteen of the subjects were able to take advantage of the French law permitting anonymous and cost-free delivery, then the adoption of the baby. However, four of the subjects denied their pregnancies so efficiently that childbirth took them by surprise. The sudden discovery of the reality of the newborn led them to neonaticide. This study clarifies the confusion that exists between the abandonment of a child in a public place, and the choice of adoption at birth, the aim of which is to protect the infant from the risk of violence or future neglect.

Accouchement: Le choix du secret 
par Catherine Bonnet, pédopsychiatre 
et psychanalyste.
  17 septembre 1998
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