The Motherhood Constellation

N. Stern, Daniel

Introduction -- The Clinical System in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy -- An Overview of the Clinical Situation -- The Parents' Representational World -- The Parents' Representations Enacted -- The Parent-Infant Interaction -- The Nature and Formation of the Infant's Representations -- The Infant's Representations Viewed Clinically -- The Therapist -- Therapeutic Approaches in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Their Commonalities -- Approaches That Aim to Change the Parents' Representations -- Approaches That Aim to Change the Interactive Behaviors -- Commonalities Among the Different Approaches -- Synthesis -- The Motherhood Constellation -- Some Wider Implications for Other Clinical Situations