Clinical research: the inner world of the mother and her new baby?-?born in the shadow of death

Reid, Marguerite

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“…Much, now, has been written about psychoanalytic research theory and clinically based research such as Anderson (2003Anderson ( , 2006, Fonagy (2003), Fonagy and Moran (1993), Midgely (2004, Reid (2003), Rustin (1997Rustin ( , 2003 and Trowell et al (2003). In this study, a psychoanalytic perspective which encompassed concepts such as the transference and countertransference, anxieties and defences, provided an important source of understanding of the children's states of mind, and their impact on workers, carers and myself.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Clinical research: a psychotherapeutic assessment model for siblings in care

Hindle

2007

Journal of Child Psychotherapy

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This paper focuses on the aspects of a qualitative research project that examines an assessment protocol for the placement of siblings in foster care and/or future adoption. A brief description of the background to the study and the research design is given. Evaluating the material from the quantitative instruments used and the psychotherapeutic assessments, the author identified two predominant themes. The first, cumulative trauma, pointed to the pervasive nature of the children's early experiences, as manifest through their presentation and play. The second, relatedness and belonging, highlighted aspects of the children's shared memories and experiences. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate the way in which these themes related to the children's sibling relationships. The author reflects on the methodology used that allowed the complexity of the issues being studied to 'come to life'. The study noted the tendency for those caring for or working with the children to underestimate the children's meaning to each other and emphasised the importance of assessing the children's perspectives where decisions are being made in childcare cases. Further questions were raised as to whether more could be done to mediate or facilitate sibling relationships for children who have suffered early deprivation or abuse, and the need for further research into this area of work was proposed.Keywords Sibling relationships; foster care; assessment; psychotherapeutic research.The relationship between young siblings is distinctive in its emotional power and intimacy, its qualities of competitiveness, ambivalence, and of emotional understanding that can be used to provoke or support. On common sense grounds these qualities, and the high frequency of interaction and imitation between siblings, suggests that the relationship will be of developmental importance -both through the direct impact of siblings upon one another, and through the indirect effects of the siblings' relationships with the parents.

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confidence: 96%

Clinical research: a psychotherapeutic assessment model for siblings in care

Hindle

2007

Journal of Child Psychotherapy

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“…Tavistock Clinic 120 Belsize Lane London NW3 4BA UK e-mail: judithedwards@virgin.net Note 1 For a recent discussion of this issue, see Reid (2003).…”

Section: Child and Family Departmentmentioning

confidence: 97%

Before the threshold: destruction, reparation and creativity in relation to the depressive position

Edwards

2005

Journal of Child Psychotherapy

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In this paper, the author revisits the classic idea formulated by Hanna Segal that creativity takes place from a depressive position impulse to repair previous destruction wrought on internal parental objects. The author proposes that in the light of psychoanalytic work with deprived and borderline children, there may need to be a rider to this formulation. By suggesting the myths of Ariadne and Orpheus alongside that of Oedipus as aids to psychoanalytic understandings, a development is posited here which may coexist with or even precede depressive struggles. Dread and hope, the author suggests, accompany both the creative artist and the child on the path towards expression of creative impulses. Such impulses exist before a 'depressive position' arrival point, or may follow it, in a cyclical rather than linear development, as Britton -drawing on Bion -suggested. This does not diminish the importance of reparation both in the individual psyche and in creative work, but makes space for the possibility of a preceding or perhaps coexisting stage. Intimations of this were already present in the work of Melanie Klein, but were not elaborated in the way suggested here, as will be indicated. The author illustrates this with her own clinical work, and proposes that similar processes may be at work in the evolution of psychoanalytic understandings.

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“…The most frequent situation in which this becomes a vital matter is when there are maternal miscarriages either before or after a child's birth. Considerable clinical research work has and is being undertaken on this theme of the 'replacement' baby (Reid, 2003) and it elaborates the risk to the child who is born following late miscarriage or especially perinatal death. Where the mother has not been able to mourn the death of the baby adequately, there can be a confusion in mother's mind between the dead and the live baby, compromising her recognition of the live baby's individuality and needs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A fourth is the investigation of the fate of 'replacement' children, when the lost sibling who remains alive and unmourned in the mind of the mother can cast a shadow that threatens the life-space of the subsequent baby. This theme has been extensively described by Reid (2003) and more recently explored in research work using participant infant observation as a methodology (Gretton, 2006). Finally, the fact that the theoretical education of child psychotherapists is solidly rooted in the reading of the classical clinical papers of Freud and later analysts and child psychotherapists ensures a vivid awareness of sibling life.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Taking account of siblings – a view from child psychotherapy 1

Rustin¹

2007

Journal of Child Psychotherapy

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Clinical research: the inner world of the mother and her new baby?-?born in the shadow of death

Cited by 19 publications

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Clinical research: a psychotherapeutic assessment model for siblings in care

Clinical research: a psychotherapeutic assessment model for siblings in care

Before the threshold: destruction, reparation and creativity in relation to the depressive position

Taking account of siblings – a view from child psychotherapy 1

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