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Mixed heritage, mixed feelings: psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy during the coronavirus pandemic
ABSTRACT This paper is an account of Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapy (PPIP) by a white therapist with a mixed heritage family during the coronavirus pandemic. It describes changes to the distant relationship between a mother and her infant son who appears at first to be developing an avoidant, dissociated defensive strategy to ward off painful projections from his traumatised parent. Necessary modifications in treatment due to working remotely contributed to several technical adjustments made. The paper attempts to consider the inclusion of race as a fully integrated aspect of working in a transcultural field, taking into account the ‘ghosts in society’. The specific trauma of racist abuse, with an emphasis on colourism that can be experienced by mixed heritage families is discussed. The key to the improved relationship between child and mother by the end of the Parent Infant Psychotherapy is postulated to have come from reflection on the therapist’s countertransference in regard to racism, that then enabled both therapist and patient/s to recognise and begin to work through experiences, thoughts and fantasies about belonging, heritage and racism.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Child Psychotherapy is the official journal of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, first published in 1963. It is an essential publication for all those with an interest in the theory and practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and work with infants, children, adolescents and their parents where there are emotional and psychological problems. The journal also deals with the applications of such theory and practice in other settings or fields The Journal is concerned with a wide spectrum of emotional and behavioural disorders. These range from the more severe conditions of autism, anorexia, depression and the traumas of emotional, physical and sexual abuse to problems such as bed wetting and soiling, eating difficulties and sleep disturbance.