ABSTRACT

The brain is unlike all the other organs in human body. The commonly considered "mental functions", usually catalogued as memory, thought, language, affectivity, etc., as well as varying from one individual to another, do not correspond to analogous functions or functional areas of the brain. The brain produces the mind and at the same time the mind, i.e., the functional whole that processes information, generates in its continuous experience new neural networks and therefore new abilities of the brain. Perinatal Clinical Psychological care obviously becomes compulsory and is understandable by everyone when complications arise in the pregnancy, birth and postpartum period or in the case of serious social conditions of the parents. If a parent has good parenting capacities or if he can be helped—this is the work of the hoped-for perinatal clinical psychology for all—to improve his own inner structure, he can germinate in his children the abilities so that they in turn will be good parents.