This book is devoted to a topic that is fundamental value for psychoanalytic research; namely a quest for the roots of psychopathological impediments and disorders as well as the related question as to what extent these developmental disturbances can be avoided by adequate early parenting.

Preface -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Perspectives -- The prevention sciences of early development and challenging opportunities for psychoanalysis -- "Out-reaching psychoanalysis": a contribution to early prevention for "children-at-risk"? -- Minds shaped through relationships: the emerging neurobiology of parenting -- Early Prevention Programmes -- Fraiberg in Paris-early prevention through a mental health programme for vulnerable families: preliminary findings and what we have learned in conducting the French CAPEDP study -- Understanding how traumatised mothers process their toddlers' affective communication under stress: towards preventive intervention for families at high risk for intergenerational violence -- The triadic perspective for parenting and early child development: from research to prevention and therapy -- Transition to parenthood: studies of intersubjectivity in mothers and fathers -- The First Steps: a culture-sensitive preventive developmental guidance for immigrant parents and infants -- The evolution of an early parenting education programme, its follow-up, and its implications -- German perspectives on Henri Parens' pioneering work in Philadelphia: the development of attachment-based parenting programmes -- Interdisciplinary Research in Frankfurt -- Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk: objectives and agenda of a transdisciplinary research centre -- History and concept development of psychoanalytically based prevention projects in preschool institutions of the city of Frankfurt: conducted by the Sigmund-Freud-Institut and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy -- Early prevention in day-care centres with children at risk-the EVA research project -- First Steps: an integration project for infants with an immigrant background-conceptualisation and first impressions -- Cognitive stimulation and parental sensitivity in toddlers' homes: how do children and parents interact and how effective are trainings for parents? -- Just wait and don't upset yourself: when children are exposed to poverty in their daily lives -- Clinical Applications -- Through symptoms to subjects: the family physician and the psychologist together in primary care -- From nameless dread to bearable fear: the psychoanalytic treatment of a twenty-two-month-old child -- A preventive attachment intervention with adolescent mothers: elaboration of the intervention