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SEPARATION STRUGGLES AND THE TRAUMA OF BIRTH
Author(s) -
Gomez Anthea
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1998.tb00412.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychic , weaning , developmental psychology , separation (statistics) , caesarean section , pregnancy , psychoanalysis , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , biology , genetics , endocrinology , machine learning , computer science
In this infant observation paper, I discuss how the experience of birth by emergency Caesarean section was reflected in the subsequent relationship between a mother and her baby. I explore the way in which the anxieties evoked were expressed between them in later separations, notably at weaning, and give thought as to how the psychic state of the mother's internal world, in the later stages of pregnancy, appeared to predispose her to such an experience of birth.