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The Makings Of Creativity And Empathy: Maps Of Maternal Representations, Anielle M. Fredman
The Makings Of Creativity And Empathy: Maps Of Maternal Representations, Anielle M. Fredman
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The Makings of Creativity and Empathy: Maps of Maternal Representations
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Anielle M. Fredman
Advisor: Sasha Rudenstine, Ph.D.
The present study investigates the relationship between maternal fantasy of the child and their relationship, and children’s unconscious processes. In addition, the study aims to ascertain the link between maternal representations and aspects of the child’s intrapsychic world, including ego functioning, object relations, and processes of separation-individuation.
Maternal fantasy was measured in an original way with a tripartite typology of Positive, Mixed-Complex, and Contradictory Representations, applied to the Parent Development Interview-Revised Short (Slade et al., 2004), adapted from the Working Model …