From Pathological Merger to a Reflective, Triangular Space: Parent-Infant Psychotherapy with a Mother with Borderline Personality Disorder

References

• Baradon, T. (2005). What is genuine maternal love?: Clinical considerations and technique in psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 60, 47–71. doi:10.1080/00797308.2005.11800746
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baradon, T. (2016). Preface. In T. Baradon, M. Biseo, C. Broughton, J. James, & A. Joyce (Eds.), The practice of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy: Claiming the baby (2nd ed., pp. xi-xiv). London, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Baradon, T., & Joyce, A. (2005). The theory of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy. In T. Baradon, C. Broughton, I. Gibbs, J. James, A. Joyce, & J. Woodhead (Eds.), The practice of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (pp. 25–40). London, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Bateman, A. W. (1998). Thick- and thin-skinned organisations and enactment in borderline and narcissistic disorders. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79, 13–25.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bateman, A. W., & Fonagy, P. (2013). Mentalization-based treatment. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 33(6), 595–613. doi:10.1080/07351690.2013.835170
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Britton, R. (2004). Subjectivity, objectivity, and triangular space. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73, 47–61. doi:10.1002/j.2167-4086.2004.tb00152.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Britton, R. (1989). The missing link: Parental sexuality in the oedipus complex. In R. Britton, M. Feldman, & E. O’Shaughnessy (Eds.), The oedipus complex today: Clinical implications (pp. 83–101). London, England: Karnac.
   Google Scholar
• Daws, D. (1999). Parent-infant psychotherapy: Remembering the oedipus complex. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 19, 267–278. doi:10.1080/07351699909534247
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fonagy, P. (1989). On tolerating mental states: Theory of mind in borderline personality. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 12(2), 91–115.
   Google Scholar
• Fonagy, P. (1991). Thinking about thinking: Some clinical and theoretical considerations in the treatment of a borderline patient. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 72, 639–656.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A. W. (2007). Mentalizing and borderline disorder. Journal of Mental Health, 16(1), 83–101. doi:10.1080/09638230601182045
   Google Scholar
• Fonagy, P., Steele, H., & Steele, M. (1991). Maternal representations of attachment during pregnancy predict the organization of infant-mother attachment at one year of age. Child Development, 62, 891–905. doi:10.2307/1131141
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1998). “Playing with reality”: Developmental research and a psychoanalytic model for the development of subjectivity. In P. Fonagy, G. Gergely, E. Jurist, & M. Target (Eds.), Affect regulation, mentalization and development of the self (pp. 253–290). New York, NY: Other Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fraiberg, S., Adelson, E., & Shapiro, V. (1975). Ghosts in the nursery: A psychoanalytic approach to the problem of impaired infant-mother relationships. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 14(3), 387–421. doi:10.1016/S0002-7138(09)61442-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1897). Letter 71: Extracts from the Fliess papers. In The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. I, pp. 263–266). London: Vintage, The Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Freud, S. (1938). Splitting of the ego in the process of defence. In The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. XXIII, pp. 271–278). London: Vintage, The Hogarth Press.
   Google Scholar
• George, C., Kaplan, N., & Main, M. (1985). Adult Attachment Interview (2nd ed.). Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley.
   Google Scholar
• Gunderson, J. G., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2008). BPD’s interpersonal hypersensitivity phenotype: A gene-environment-developmental model. Journal of Personality Disorders, 22(1), 22–41. doi:10.1521/pedi.2008.22.1.22
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hobson, R. P., Patrick, M. P. H., Hobson, J. A., Crandell, L., Bronfman, E., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2009). How mothers with borderline personality disorder relate to their year-old infants. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 195, 325–330. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.108.060624
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Joyce, A. (2005). The parent-infant relationship and parent-infant mental health. In T. Baradon, C. Broughton, I. Gibbs, J. James, & J. Woodhead (Eds.), The practice of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (pp. 5–24). London, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Klein, M. (1927). The psychological principles of early analysis. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 8, 25–37.
   Google Scholar
• Luyten, P., Fonagy, P., Lowyck, B., & Vermote, R. (2012). Assessment of mentalization. In A. W. Bateman & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of mentalizing in mental health practice (pp. 43–66). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Nijssens, L., & Fonagy, P. (2017). The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation. PLoS ONE, 12(5), 1–28. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0176218
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Midgley, N., & Vrouva, I. (Eds.). (2012). Minding the child: Mentalization-based interventions with children, young people and their families. London, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Petfield, L., Startup, H., Droscher, H., & Cartwright-Hatton, S. (2015). Parenting in mothers with borderline personality disorder and impact on child outcomes. Evidence Based Mental Health, 18(3), 67–75. doi:10.1136/eb-2015-102163
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Rutherford, H. J. V., Maupin, A. N., Landi, N., Potenza, M. N., & Mayes, L. C. (2017). Parental reflective functioning and the neural correlates of processing infant affective cues. Social Neuroscience, 12(5), 519–529. doi:10.1080/17470919.2016.1193559
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rutherford, H. J. V., & Mayes, L. C. (2011). Primary maternal preoccupation: Using neuroimaging techniques to explore the parental brain. Psyche, 65, 973–988.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rutherford, H. J. V., Wallace, N. S., Laurent, H. K., & Mayes, L. C. (2015). Emotion regulation in parenthood. Developmental Review, 36, 1–14. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2014.12.008
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schumacher, B. (2008). “I can’t live without my child”: Motherhood as a “solution” to early trauma. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 24, 317–327. doi:10.1111/bjp.2008.24.issue-3
   Google Scholar
• Steele, M., & Baradon, T. (2004). Clinical use of the adult attachment interview in parent-infant psychotherapy. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25(4), 284–299. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0355
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Target, M. (2016). Mentalization within intensive analysis with a borderline patient. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 32(2), 202–214. doi:10.1111/bjp.12211
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wendland, J., Brisson, J., Medeiros, M., Camon-Sénéchal, L., Aidane, E., David, M., … Rabain, D. (2014). Mothers with borderline disorder: Transition to parenthood, parent-infant interaction and preventive/therapeutic approach. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 21(2), 139–153.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Winnicott, D. W. (1958). Chapter XXIV. Primary maternal preoccupation. In Collected papers: Through paediatrics to psycho-analysis (pp. 300–306). London, England: Tavistock.
   Google Scholar
• Winnicott, D. W. (1963). Dependence in infant care, in child care, and in the psycho-analytic setting. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 44, 339–344.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Woodhead, J. (2005). Endings in parent-infant psychotherapy. In T. Baradon, C. Broughton, I. Gibbs, J. James, & J. Woodhead (Eds.), The practice of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (pp. 108–126). London, England: Routledge.
   Google Scholar