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Maternal Representations of Attachment during Pregnancy Predict the Organization of Infant-Mother Attachment at One Year of Age

Fonagy, Peter, Steele, Howard, Steele, Miriam·1991·Child Development
DOI 10.2307/1131141
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Peter Fonagy, Howard Steele, Miriam Steele, Maternal Representations of Attachment during Pregnancy Predict the Organization of Infant-Mother Attachment at One Year of Age, Child Development, Vol. 62, No. 5 (Oct., 1991), pp. 891-905

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  • Internal Working Models of self and other are transmitted from one generation to the next along with defensive strategies for coping with distress in the face of perceived danger.

    “Empirical studies conducted within the framework of attachment theory have fully demonstrated that the Internal Working Models (IWM) of self and other are transmitted from one generation to the next along with defensive strategies for coping with distress in the face of perceived danger.”

    From Psychoanalytic Interventions with Abusive Parents: An Opportunity for Children’s Mental Health (2022) · cites this paper as [26]

  • Mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning, plays a crucial role in the transmission of attachment security.

    “Interestingly, these studies highlighted the crucial role of mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning, in the transmission of attachment security”

    From Psychoanalytic Interventions with Abusive Parents: An Opportunity for Children’s Mental Health (2022) · cites this paper as [26]

  • Abusive parents who themselves were abused children develop ineffective defenses against mental pain that do not allow the development of the ability to mentalize and process emotional pain, and they defensively resort to identifying with the aggressor.

    “Mentalization-based treatment originates from the observation that abusive parents who themselves were abused children develop ineffective defenses against mental pain related to the abusive experiences suffered in the past and that these defenses do not allow the development of the ability to mentalize and process their emotional pain. On the contrary, they defensively resort to identifying with”

    From Psychoanalytic Interventions with Abusive Parents: An Opportunity for Children’s Mental Health (2022) · cites this paper as [26]

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Authors
Fonagy, P., Steele, H., & Steele, M.
ORCID
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1991-10
Volume
62
Issue
5
Pages
891
ISSN
0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/1131141
OpenAlex
W4234501107
Cited by
684
References
0
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FWCI
15.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Child Development (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Keywords
infant-mother attachment, attachment organization, pregnancy, maternal mentalization, attachment theory, early infancy

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