@article{İkiz, author = {İkiz, Tevfika}, title = {Blind mothers of suffering babies}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 049-053.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 049-053.}, abstract = {In this paper, the author presents case material related to a patient who asked for psychotherapy as she was having difficulty managing her problems within the family. This clinical vignette reveals how some mothers have difficulties being, as Winnicott said, >ordinary devoted mothers.< These mothers are >psychologically blind,< in that they not able to psychologically >see< or feel the pain of their babies or children. The author discusses the case material using Winnicott and Bion's essential concepts of how the patient is deprived of maternal functioning.}, language = {en} }