FROM THE HOSPITAL TO THE HOSPITAL - REFLE CTIONS ABOUT THE PSYCHIC ASPECTS OF REHOSPITALIZATION FOR BABIES WHO WERE BORN PREMATURELY

Through the use of four clinical examples, we would like to demonstrat e that the parents of former premature children frequently have a tran sferential-type relationship with the hospital to which the children o ften have recourse, in that this institution finds itself in the posit ion of a grand super-ego. Such being the case, an analysis of this see ms pertinent to us in order to clarify the parent-child interrelations hips. The basic idea is to transform hospitalizations which seem ''unu seful'' to the hospital personnel into profitable occasions if it is p ossible at this time, with the help of the ward psychologist and child psychiatrist, to begin work which will allow the families to achieve different interactive functioning.