The Motherhood Constellation A Unified View Of Parent-infant Psychotherapy

by Stern, Daniel N

• ISBN13: 9780465026029
• ISBN10: 0465026028
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-04-07
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Part I THE CLINICAL SYSTEM IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY
An Overview of the Clinical Situation	11	(7)
The Parents' Representational World	18	(23)
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	(16)
Index	221