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Maternal Representations of Attachment during Pregnancy Predict the Organization of Infant-Mother Attachment at One Year of Age
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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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“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.”
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“Interestingly, these studies highlighted the crucial role of mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning, in the transmission of attachment security”
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“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”
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- Authors
- Fonagy, P., Steele, H., & Steele, M.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1991-10
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 891
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4234501107
- Cited by
- 684
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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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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