Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2090826
C. Mallouh
A mother in the throes of extreme postpartum depression and anxiety cried out to me, “I feel like I am dying.” Winnicott’s annihilation anxiety came to mind, and I realized how much she was feeling like an infant who was experiencing a threat to its personal existence. She was overwhelmed by the impingements of her emotional states and the needs of the baby, and needed from me, a direct and consistent responsiveness to her terror and distress. It was only much later that she told me that she had slept with the window open in her bedroom hoping to be kidnapped as she wanted to get away from what felt like an unbearable situation with the baby. Another mother with postpartum depression later described how she felt traumatized by her infant and that in her sleepless nights, she felt that she was in a long, sustained nightmare. Caring for him felt like a struggle, something she wanted to do, but felt it was just too much. Pregnancy and the postpartum period can be times of significant emotional upheaval and disturbance, particularly when women are in severe depressive and anxious states, states that often reverberate with early losses and deprivations. Both Winnicott and Bion think about the period of early infancy, with an interest in the mother’s states primarily from the perspective of the infant’s experience, the developing mind and sense of self. They both went on to build important aspects of their theory from this period of mother and infant.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2090212
F. Schmidt, Guilherme Pacheco Fiorini, A. A. da Costa, Eduardo Brusius Brenner, Lucca Zini Bittencourt, V. R. R. Ramires
ABSTRACT The present study aimed to verify the associations between symptoms reported at baseline, attachment style and reflective function (RF) in children and adolescents. For this, we conducted a cross-sectional and naturalistic study, including 90 children and adolescents aged between 9 and 17 years old (M = 13.04, SD = 2.72). Instruments were a demographic form, the Child Behavior Checklist, the Friends and Family Interview and the Reflective Function Questionnaire for Youths. From our findings, internalizing symptoms were reported in 74.4% of the cases, and externalizing symptoms in 55.6%. Concerning the attachment styles, 46.7% of the cases were classified as insecure-dismissing, 38.9% as insecure-preoccupied, 10% as secure and 4.4% as disorganized. Participants’ scores for RF were low. We found associations between attachment styles and anxiety, depression and withdrawal symptoms. We found significant differences between the insecure-dismissing style and the insecure-preoccupied and disorganized styles groups regarding anxiety and depression symptoms. The secure attachment style group showed significant differences in withdrawal symptoms when compared to insecure attachment style groups. Further studies exploring associations between attachment styles, RF and psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, could contribute to the evaluation and planning of psychotherapies processes with this population.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2090213
Mercedes Becerra Gordo
ABSTRACT The termination of pregnancy, whether spontaneous or voluntary, involves an intense emotional impact on both the woman and her partner which alters their emotional world. The high percentage of women who suffer a perinatal loss, and the emotional repercussions it entails in both the short and long term, make it necessary to rethink the work of the specialties which attend the perinatal population (psychology, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics, psychiatry …) to acknowledge the importance of a frequent yet particularly silenced grieving process. In this article focus will be placed on the perinatal losses which occur during gestation, a mourning process which ebbs and flows, which has its own symptomatology and one which also requires its own bespoke attention, training, and therapeutic listening. From reflection and clinical practice, relevant aspects which occur during this therapeutic process will be addressed. This professional accompaniment, which is necessary yet scarce, aims to enable the woman and her partner to sufficiently work through their grief, alleviate the current symptomatology and, in the case of a subsequent pregnancy, reduce the risk of emotional imbalance in the mother, her partner and the future baby, which can lead to perinatal depression in the parents or emotional development problems in the baby.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2050344
Warren Spielberg
ABSTRACT This article recounts my treatment of David, an African American child of 12 who faced suspension and removal from his school in a wealthy, mostly all-white school district in the suburbs. During the treatment, David was primarily silent. The paper discusses his silence from two perspectives: (1) his need to protect and support his emerging self from the fear of abuse and (2) from the racism he experienced in his school district and from White people in general. I discuss how I worked with his silence and how our work reflected several racial enactments. The resolution of which furthered our relationship and his treatment. In this vein, I illuminate some of the ingredients of successful Cross-Racial work. I move onto a broader discussion of African-American children’s racialized school experience as they and their teachers struggle to mentalize each other constructively.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2069452
C. Adams
ABSTRACT This article offers an exploration of the psychological impact of race-driven adversities on Black youth. Sociological data and psychoanalytic perspectives are outlined to contextualize the often less-than-good-enough outcomes for Black youth across all developmental domains. Emphasis is placed on understanding the intrapsychic processes observed in response to race-driven adversities and the therapeutic challenges to addressing the conflicts and compromises.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2067976
J. Kaufmann
ABSTRACT This discussion of David Price’s paper focuses on the tenacity of reparative illusion and the significance of witnessing parental loss. In recent years the witnessing concept has come into prominence in considering people who have suffered through major historical trauma, such as the genocide that occurs in war-torn areas. The author argues that some of the most despicable and destructive horrors occur in everyday, domestic life, plain for everyone to see, yet somehow impossible for people to see. The traumatic experience of many foster children is difficult to hear, yet must be witnessed to help them heal and mourn. It’s important for the clinician to hear, hold and contain all that the foster care survivor has endured. As clinicians, we need to recognize how difficult it is to relinquish the fantasy of the caring, nurturing mother who returns.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2075668
S. Warshaw, Martha Bragin, Kirkland C. Vaughans
In this current highly polarized environment, in a world filled with violence and war, escalating racial and religious intolerance, we devote this special anniversary issue to furthering our understanding of the impact of societally generated adversities on the lives of our children and youth. In keeping with the mission of the journal, we explore the impact on development and seek to enhance our clinical understanding of those whose lives are negatively affected by growing up as “other.” Our hope is that this rich trove of articles will enhance appreciation of cultural differences, social trauma and also increase awareness of sources of resilience, found in family, community and the therapeutic process. We hope our readers will learn, as we did, by reading these wonderful contributions, thereby increasing our efficacy as clinicians bringing a psychoanalytic perspective to working with our children and youth. We listen to many voices in this issue, authors from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds who have much to say about the impact of growing up in racially stigmatizing cultures, the legacy of slavery and colonialism and their continuing negative impact on self-development of children of color. Our first two authors specifically consider the profound impact of these legacies, bringing with them marginalization, racial hatred and all of those aspects of inequity that were laid bare during the pandemic of the past two years (Adams, 2022; Padron, 2022). Each uses a psychoanalytic lens to consider the impact on development and treatment, defying the cultural tendency to focus solely on symptom management. Next we are treated to a scholarly exploration of how a series of mothering practices, which originated in West Africa centuries ago, created a style of parenting that the author indicates supported survival and resilience of enslaved people through extending caregiving responsibilities to the community at large (Bryant, 2022). The consistent nurturing, responsiveness, and attunement to the needs of their infants and children which such extended caregiving provides, is seen to this day in the intergenerationally transmitted family patterns of African Americans, and needs to be recognized, along with a linkage between culture and spirituality, as a source of resilience and resistance. Continuing to discuss aspects of cultural difference, and their differential impact on personality development, our next author (Kanwal, 2022) considers the devastating assault on a continuity of self, experienced by teens who are torn between family cultures which are collectivist and the values of the individualistic American culture in which they wish to be included. He presents significant theoretical and clinical considerations as he describes the identity struggles of adolescents who are navigating
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2066866
C. Padrón
ABSTRACT Through a close reading of an anonymous lullaby from Latin America, the paper argues how colonial legacies and systemic racism, in the context of the structure of whiteness and the Covid pandemic, have had a nefarious impact on the material, symbolic, and psychic life of poor and working-class children and adolescents of color. The paper places a focus on Black kids. Left outside the symbolic, material, and legal order, these individuals suffer systemic attacks against their body and mind. This fact, in tandem with the devastating realities of the pandemic, have produced what the author calls an experience of “the end of the world.” Three main consequences of all these configurations are discussed: (1) failed identifications with whiteness; (2) loss of play; and (3) “confusion of tongues.” The need for new social lullabies, ones that invigorate our social capacity to dream the (colonial) state of affairs as being otherwise and that create communal solidarity, is proposed.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2075667
S. Warshaw
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2066916
Valerie Bryant
ABSTRACT This paper aims to initiate a discourse that connects allomothers, endemic to African culture, with collective manymothering attachments from a psychoanalytic perspective. This paper illuminates the process by which, beginning with West Africa, Black mothers adapted and carried the process of mothering with them to provide consistent nurturing, responsiveness, and attunement to their infants’ and children’s needs. This process of extending caregiving responsibilities to the community at large, which I have labeled manymothering, has created generations of resistance and resilience that have supported Black people to the present. The psychoanalytic lens of othermothers serves as an adaptive familial structure that has been sustained through intergenerational resilient transmission. The linkage between culture and spirituality as a means of ameliorating trauma and promoting resilience was examined.
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