TY - JOUR A1 - Ludwig-Koerner, Ch. T1 - Effects of Severely Disturbed Parents on Early Parent-Infant Interaction JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 1, April 1999), pp. 25-32. N2 - Pathogenic parent-infant relationship patterns endanger developmental processes of children. Psychoanalysis with parents and their infants helps to diminish transgenerational repetition of maladaptive experiences of relationships. The aim of this extensive work is to transform dysfunctional relationship patterns and to change their self- and object-representations. The author gives an account of her experiences working in a counselling centre, where parents may come with their >problem babies<, infants with sleep and thriving disturbances or >ry babies<, and demonstrates the positive effects of a reconstructive and at the same time prospective work. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ludwig-Koerner, Ch. T1 - Parent-infant-psychotherapy and psychoanalytic treatment: contradiction or mutual inspiration? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 252-258. N2 - Psychoanalysis and parent-infant-psychotherapy are compared. Although parent-infant-psychotherapy developed from psychoanalysis, it appears at first glance not to be >analytic< with its aim of dealing quickly with the symptoms presented and also with its different setting. The author shows that an analytic approach in understanding the multi-facetted net of relationships between family members and the infant in its >phantasmic interaction< and a consideration of the implication for analysis of the empirical research carried out in conjunction with parent-infant-therapy can lead to a fruitful exchange of ideas. One example of this is research into the correlation between attachment patterns and the processing of conflicts. Furthermore a dialogue between these two disciplines can remind psychoanalysts that a critical discussion of the external circumstances of their methods does not immediately call into question their fundamental approach to therapy: the work in transference on relationship fantasies. Y1 - 2003 ER -