1989
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1989.tb01085.x
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The Pregnant Psychotherapist: A Potent Transference Stimulus

Abstract: SUMMARY The pregnant therapist is not often encountered in the psychoanalytic literature, and yet my patients were profoundly affected by my pregnancy. The patient described attempted to recreate in the transference the lost, longed‐for symbiotic mother. Identification with the (fantasised) baby was the main form of defence against separation from the idealised mother and awareness of ambivalence. In the countertransference I developed a corresponding form of primary maternal preoccupation. The primary identif… Show more

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“…У 1989 році S. Gottlieb теж розглянула вагітність психотерапевта як стимул до перенесення у клієнта на прикладі власного консультативного кейсу [10]. Описаний авторкою клієнт у ході психотерапії відтворив у перенесенні на психолога раніше втрачену, довгождану симбіотичну матір, тож новина про вагітність психотерапевта його глибоко вразила.…”
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“…У 1989 році S. Gottlieb теж розглянула вагітність психотерапевта як стимул до перенесення у клієнта на прикладі власного консультативного кейсу [10]. Описаний авторкою клієнт у ході психотерапії відтворив у перенесенні на психолога раніше втрачену, довгождану симбіотичну матір, тож новина про вагітність психотерапевта його глибоко вразила.…”
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“…These four responses can be construed as paired opposites: curiosity versus ignoring (i.e., the apparent lack of curiosity) and caretaking (beneficence) versus aggression (maleficence). Underlying these behavioral responses are affectively charged themes, including merger, separation, and envy (Table 1), 14 all of which are unconscious fantasies stimulated by the image of the ideally intimate mother-infant pair. How the clinician chooses to respond (or not respond) can facilitate how the patient or family copes with and begins to work through their imminent loss.…”
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“…Reports from and about pregnant psychoanalytic therapists focus mainly on their impact on patients. The pregnancy as a potent transference stimulus (Clarkson, 1980;Gottlieb, 1989) is a common denominator, as is the issue of premature arousal of transference (Bassen, 1988;Deben-Mager, 1993), noting each patient's different reaction in accord with her own individual psychohistory. Other central issues are the breech of analytic anonymity (Appelbaum and Diamond, 1993), the therapist's self-absorption (Nadelson et al, 1974;Bassen, 1988), the patient's exposure to the analyst's sexuality (Lax, 1969;Browning, 1974), disruptive intensification of resistance (Penn, 1986), and exacerbated dynamics of dependency, loss, and separation induced by maternity leave (Browning, 1974;Bassen, 1988).…”
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confidence: 97%