ABSTRACT
Analysts may have a phobic relationship to the service. When psychoanalysts observe babies, it is not in order to translate their observations into graphs and statistics, but rather they agree to be involved in the experience, as D. W. Winnicott emphasised. Working groups are organised regularly within neonatal intensive-care unit framework, and the place of the psychoanalyst can be explored there. Psychoanalysts, have been through a personal analysis, have undertaken much supervision, and continually study psychoanalytic texts and have a different way of looking at things. The work of “co-resuscitation” with a psychoanalytic orientation is real team-work, and could easily be set up elsewhere. It is truly not a question of working as an “extra” with the parents and babies, in parallel with the service, but of allowing the caregivers themselves to develop new ideas about the process of resuscitation in order to enable them to change their approach to it.
