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  • Title: Transferences in parent-infant psychoanalytic treatments.
    Author: Salomonsson B.
    Journal: Int J Psychoanal; 2013 Aug; 94(4):767-92. PubMed ID: 23924334.
    Abstract:
    In parent-infant treatments, babies sometimes exhibit symptoms such as screaming, clinging, and fearful gaze avoidance of the analyst. The paper investigates if such phenomena may be regarded as transference manifestations, and if so, if they appear both in younger and older infants. Based on three case presentations, it is concluded that some babies are capable of forming both brief and enduring transferences. The term "indirect infant transference" refers to when a baby reacts emotionally to the analyst as long as the parent's transference remains unresolved. "Direct transference" refers to when a baby reacts in a non-mediated way to the analyst. The necessary tool of investigation for discovering these phenomena is a psychoanalytic method with an explicit, though not exclusive, focus on the baby. Discerning them in the clinical encounter may help us understand the baby's predicament and when and how to address the baby or the parent. These treatments constitute an empirical field awaiting more extensive clinical and theoretical investigation. Already now, they suggest that transference may be rooted in, and may appear during, very early developmental stages. The paper's positions are compared with those put forward by other parent-infant clinicians.
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