Blind mothers of suffering babies

  • 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.

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Author:Tevfika İkiz
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 049-053.
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:Ikiz_T_2017
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):on request / auf Anfrage
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