The Motherhood Constellation A Unified View

Stern presents a major synthesis of the newly exploding field of infant mental health and creates a new model of treatment. He shows the critical elements of any parent-infant clinical system: the parents' representations of the relationship with the baby, their overt interactions, the infant's representations of these interactions, and the role of the therapist.

Daniel N. Stern, M.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical Center–New York Hospital. An expert in the mother-infant relationship, he is the author of The Interpersonal World of the Infant and The Diary of a Baby.Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, M.D., is a pediatrician and child psychiatrist in Geneva, Switzerland. Alison Freeland, a freelance writer and the author of The Journey to Motherhood, currently works as a reporter for Vermont Public Radio.

Introduction

1

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Part I THE CLINICAL SYSTEM IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY

An Overview of the Clinical Situation

11

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The Parents' Representational World

18

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The Parents' Representations Enacted

41

(18)

The Parent-Infant Interaction

59

(20)

The Nature and Formation of the Infant's Representations

79

(20)

The Infant's Representations Viewed Clinically

99

(12)

The Therapist

111

(8)

Part II THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THEIR COMMONALITIES

Approaches That Aim to Change the Parents' Representations

119

(19)

Approaches That Aim to Change the Interactive Behaviors

138

(9)

Commonalities Among the Different Approaches

147

(24)

Part III SYNTHESIS

The Motherhood Constellation

171

(20)

Some Wider Implications for Other Clinical Situations

191

(14)

References

205

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Index

221

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The Motherhood Constellation A Unified View Of Parent-infant Psychotherapy

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