This research compared two forms of psychodynamic psychotherapeutic interventions for 67 clinically referred infants and their mothers. One was an infant-led psychotherapy delivered through a program called Watch, Wait, and Wonder (WWW). The other was a mother-infant psychotherapy (PPT). Infants ran
Watching, waiting, and wondering: Applying psychoanalytic principals to mother-infant intervention
β Scribed by Elisabeth Muir
- Book ID
- 102675419
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 681 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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β¦ Synopsis
There is general acceptance that the intergenerational repetition of relational patterns is transmitted within the interactions between mother and infant. The highly invested nature of the motherinfant relationship makes it a prime arena for the playing out of unresolved relational conflicts of the mother. This occurs through the mother's responses to her infant in which she projects into the infant certain disavowed but highly invested positive or negative attributes. This leads to the interactional re-creation of a whole relational system reflecting the mother's current and past relationship experiences. When a mother's conflictual past is unresolved and unmitigated by current relationships, her interactions with her infant are more driven by such perceptions than by real appraisal of the infant's actual attributes. The sleeping. eating, and behavioral management p r o b l q of infancy are often manifestations of such situations. A deceptively simple set of instructions to the mother, to become a nonintrusive observer of her infant and only interact at the infant's initiative, allows a role for the infant's initiative in changing interactions and thus potentially changing a relational system. R&SUMe: I1 est gtntralcment acceptk que la rkpttition intergtntration de patterns de relation est transmis au sein des interactions entre la mtre et le nourrisson. La nature meme de la relation mtre-nounisson en fait un domaine fondamental pour I'apparition de conflits relationels non rtsolus de la mke. Cela se passe A la travers l a rtponses que la mkre fait ;1 son nourrisson. rCponses dans laquella elle projette sur son nourrisson certains attributs dtsavouts hautement positifs ou nbgatifs. Cela m h e a la rc-crbtion interactionnelle de tout un systCmc relationnel reflktant les experiences pas&a et courantes de la mtre. Quand le passe conflictuel d'une mhe est non resolu et non mitigb par d a relations courantes, SQ interactions avec son nourrisson sont plus commandea par de tells perceptions que par I'bvaluation rCelle d a vrais attributs du nourrisson. Les problhes in fantiles d'amtnagement du componement. du sornmeil et de l'alimentation sont souvent d a manifestations de telles situations. Une f i e fausanent simple d'instructions a la mereafin qu'elle devienne un observateur d6tachC de son nounisson et qu'elle n'agisx qu'A I'initiative du nounisson-donne B I'initiative du nourrisson un rale en changeant les interactions et ainsi en changeant potentiellement un systtme de relation.
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