The motherhood constellation : a unified view of parent-infant psychotherapy

Part 1 - The clinical system in parent-infant psychotherapy. 1 An overview of the clinical situation. 2 The parents' representational world. 3 The parents' representations enacted. 4 The parent-infant interaction. 5 The nature and formation of the infant's representations. 6 The infant's representations viewed clinically. 7 The therapist. Part 2 - Therapeutic approaches in parent-infant psychotherapy and their commonalities. 8 Approaches that aim to change the parents' representations. 9 Approaches that aim to change the interactive behaviors. 10 Commonalities among the different approaches. Part 3 - Synthesis. 11 The motherhood constellation. 12 Some wider implications for other clinical situations

'...in this pioneering new work of creative synthesis, he maps out the emerging field of parent-infant psychotherapy and describes a powerful new paradigm for understanding the relationship between parent and child: the motherhood constellation....This wholly original view of parent-infant psychotherapy and motherhood, with its practical implications for therapy, is a major contribution to our understanding of human development, psychopathology, and therapy in general.'

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