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Informationen zum Autor By Ann G. Smolen - With Alexandra M. Harrison M.D. Klappentext Mothering without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children explores the attachment style of homeless mothers and its effect on the resulting attachment style of their children. Ann Smolen and Alexandra Harrison utilize psychoanalytically informed interventions with the goal of aiding these women in developing a deeper capacity to understand and be attuned to their children's emotional needs. In this book, Dr. Smolen brings the full force of her psychoanalytic understanding to the clinical encounter with the most emotionally deprived and needy of human beings, homeless mothers and their children. She helps us understand the intergenerational transmission of profound emotional neglect and the role of attachment, empathy, mirroring, mentalization and appropriate responsiveness to bring about amelioration. All of this is demonstrated through moving clinical examples as well as in a research study. We are indebted to her for her empathy, understanding, and investment in this project that required dedication and tolerance of unbearable affect. In this multilevel approach, using individual treatment as well as mother-child and group sessions, play and video production, she demonstrates the benefit of a psychoanalytically informed intervention. -- Ruth S. Fischer, MD, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Mary Davis IntroductionChapter One: SaraChapter Two: Three CasesChapter Three: Cathy: Giving the Child Back To Her MotherChapter Four: Mothering Without A Home Chapter Five: Literature ReviewChapter Six: Project FindingsChapter Seven: Understanding the FindingsChapter Eight: Where Do We Go From Here?Chapter Nine: Comments on Mothering Without A Home by Alexandra HarrisonEpilogueAppendix A: The Strange SituationAppendix B: Adult Attachment InterviewAppendix C: Participant SurveyAppendix D: AAI Classification SystemAppendix E: Strange Situation CodingAppendix F: AAI DataBibliographyAcknowledgementsAbout the Authors...
