1st Edition
The Motherhood Constellation A Unified View of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
By Daniel N. Stern
Copyright 1995
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the nature of parent-infant psychotherapies, therapies that are a major segment of the rapidly growing, sprawling field of infant mental health. It examines the different elements that make up the parent-infant clinical system.
Introduction -- The Clinical System in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy -- An Overview of the Clinical Situation -- The Parents' Representational World -- The Parents' Representations Enacted -- The Parent-Infant Interaction -- The Nature and Formation of the Infant's Representations -- The Infant's Representations Viewed Clinically -- The Therapist -- Therapeutic Approaches in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Their Commonalities -- Approaches That Aim to Change the Parents' Representations -- Approaches That Aim to Change the Interactive Behaviors -- Commonalities Among the Different Approaches -- Synthesis -- The Motherhood Constellation -- Some Wider Implications for Other Clinical Situations
Biography
N. Stern, Daniel