Publications by authors named "Sylvain Missonnier"
The genesis of perinatal clinical psychology and its contemporary issues.
Front Psychiatry
July 2023
The main aim of French clinical psychology is to explain the psychic processes of transformation, to which the subject is central. In this context, transformations in the perinatal period open an innovating field in perinatal clinical psychology focused on the conscious/subconscious, subjective/inter-subjective psychic reality of a subject who is in the process of becoming (or becoming once again) a parent and being born a human.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate emotional distress and prenatal attachment throughout a subsequent pregnancy after Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) for fetal abnormality.
Methods: Observational study, in a French Tertiary Maternity.
Population: 25 women in a subsequent pregnancy after a medical termination of pregnancy for foetal abnormality, 18-year-old and older.
Premature birth is a test for fatherhood's process: it may hinder the ability to feel like a father or like a good father, and the ability to make the baby be part of the family line. A clinical research did explore how care givers in neonatal services may deploy psychic functions which support and revitalize a process of fatherhood which is potentially disturbed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- The article discusses an international research project involving multiple countries, aiming to evaluate mediation care settings through a new methodological tool focused on creativity and play.
- It explores the role of therapeutic mediations, often artistic in nature, in helping individuals express and transform their experiences through creative processes linked to play across various disciplines, including psychology and neuroscience.
- The research highlights a clinical case study demonstrating how identifying typical games in therapeutic contexts can enhance understanding and treatment outcomes, suggesting that play is fundamental to the creative process in psychological care.
Between 2012 and 2014, a study was carried out of women pregnant for the first time to find out more about their experience of the ultrasound scan. The drawing of the image of the ultrasound scan was the main methodological tool used in the study. It enables the quality of the perception of the ultrasound scan to be linked to the quality of maternal representations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudying early interactions is a core issue of infant development and psychopathology. Automatic social signal processing theoretically offers the possibility to extract and analyze communication by taking an integrative perspective, considering the multimodal nature and dynamics of behaviors (including synchrony). This paper proposes an explorative method to acquire and extract relevant social signals from a naturalistic early parent-infant interaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Assessment of mother-child interactions is a core issue of early child development and psychopathology. This paper focuses on the concept of "synchrony" and examines (1) how synchrony in mother-child interaction is defined and operationalized; (2) the contribution that the concept of synchrony has brought to understanding the nature of mother-child interactions.
Method: Between 1977 and 2013, we searched several databases using the following key-words: "synchrony" "interaction" and "mother-child".