Research Catalog

Title

The maternal lineage : identification, desire, and transgenerational issues / edited by Paola Mariotti.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mariotti, Paola

Description

xviii, 417 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Why do women want to have children? How does one 'learn' to be a mother? Does having babies have anything to do with sex? At a time when mothers are bombarded by prescriptive and contradicting advice on how to behave with their children, The Maternal Lineage highlights various psychological aspects of the mothering experience. International contributors provide clinical examples of frequent and challenging situations that have received scarce attention in psychoanalysis, such as issues of neglect and psychical abuse. The transgenerational repetition from mother to daughter of distressing mothering patterns is evident throughout the book, and may seem inevitable, however clinical examples and theoretical research indicate that, when the support of partner and friends is not enough, the cycle can be brought to an end if the mother receives psychoanalytic-informed professional help. The Maternal Lineage is divided into four parts, covering: - A review of the literature focusing the mother-daughter relationship - Pregnancy and very early issues - Sub-fertility and its effects on a woman's psyche - The psychological aspects of major mothering problems: miscarriages, post-natal depression, adolescent motherhood This timely book will be of value to Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists and Health professionals - Obstetricians, Psychiatrists, Midwives and Social workers"--

Series Statement

The new library of psychoanalysis

Uniform Title

New library of psychoanalysis

Subject

• Motherhood > Psychological aspects
• Pregnancy > Psychological aspects
• Mother and child > Psychological aspects
• Mothers > psychology
• Maternal Behavior > psychology
• Pregnancy > psychology
• Mother-Child Relations > psychology
• Intergenerational Relations
• Psychotherapy > methods
• PSYCHOLOGY > Movements > Psychoanalysis
• PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health
• Mutter
• Schwangerschaft
• Psychologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Primary maternal preoccupation / D.W. Winnicott -- 2. Peaceful islands and dangerous jungles -- pregnancy : opportunity or impediment. A psychoanalyst's view / Dana Birksted-Breen -- 3. Shame and maternal ambivalence / Rozsika Parker -- 4. The pregnant mother and the body image of the daughter / Rosemary H. Balsam -- 5. On motherhood / Erna Furman -- 6. The 'Medea fantasy' : an unconscious determinant of psychogenic sterility / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber -- 7. The baby makers : conscious and unconscious psychological reactions to infertility and 'baby-making' : an in-depth single case study / Joan Raphael-Leff -- 8. Infertility in the age of technology / Sharon Zalusky Blum -- 9. Pregnancy, miscarriage and abortion : a psychoanalytic perspective / Dinora Pines -- 10. Postpartum depression and symbiotic illusion / Hendrika Halberstadt-Freud -- 11. Keeping envy in mind : the vicissitudes of envy in adolescent motherhood / Alessandra Lemma -- 12. "What is genuine maternal love?" Clinical considerations and technique in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy / Tessa Baradon -- 13. Infant-parent psychotherapy on behalf of a child in a critical nutritional state / Selma Fraiberg and Edna Adelson -- 14. Bodies across generations and cycles of abuse / Estela Welldon.

ISBN

• 9780415681643
• 0415681642
• 9780415681650
• 0415681650

LCCN

2011028978

OCLC

• ocn731925300
• 731925300
• SCSB-14699876

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library