TY - JOUR A1 - Blum, Harold P. T1 - The mother’s mental representation of her infant JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 064-069. N2 - The mother’s intrapsychic mental representation of her infant begins before pregnancy and is modified during pregnancy and thereafter. Parents have conscious expectations and unconscious fantasies about their infant, which are all too often not consistent with reality. Early intervention in infant–parent disturbances is important for repair of the relationship and prevention of later pathogenic development. A clinical example of a mother’s unconscious ambivalent mental representations of her infant is presented. Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blum, Harold P. T1 - Welcome to >Parent–Infant Disturbance: Theory and Therapy< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 008-009. N2 - The initiator of the conference and (together with Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor) conference co-chair, Harold Blum, introduces the objectives of the interdisciplinary and psychoanalytic conference on >Parent–Infant Disturbance: Theory and Therapy.< In the epilogue, the author brings up the coincident Paris terrorist attack of November 13, 2015 – the first day of this two-day conference. Y1 - 2017 ER -