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The mother’s mental representation of her infant

  • 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.

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Author:Harold P. Blum
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 064-069.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2017
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Blum_H_P_2017a
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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