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The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green (New Library of Psychoanalysis)
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Product Description
This collection of essays explore the concept of the 'dead mother' which refers to the process of mourning that takes place in the child following maternal depression, when the child experiences the loss of love.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #351607 in Books
- Published on: 1999-05-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 248 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'One of the most distinguished analysts of our time.' - R. Horacio Etchegoyen
Readers will find this a valuable book - for the lively dialogue between Green and Kohon, its return to Green's major paper 'The dead mother', for the individual authors' impressive responses to it, and for the glimpse of the walls in the present psychoanalytic scene, which Green has both run up against and surmounted. - Edna O'Shaughnessy, IJPA 82 (3) ,2001
From the Back Cover
The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of relating the concept of the dead mother to other areas of clinical interest: psychic reality, borderline phenomena, passions, identification.
The concept of the dead mother describes a clinical phenomenon, sometimes difficult to identify, but always present in a substantial number of patients. It describes a process by which the image of a living and loving mother is transformed into a distant figure; a toneless, practically inanimate, dead parent. In reality, the mother remains alive, but she has psychically 'died' for the child. This produces a depression in the child, who carries these feelings within him into adult life, as the experience of the loss of the mother's love is followed by the loss of meaning in life. Nothing makes sense any more for the child, but life seems to
About the Author
Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society. He works in private practice in London.
Martin S. Bergman, USA; Christopher Bollas, UK, Andre Green, UK; Andre Lussier, Canada, Arnold H. Modell, USA, Thomas Odgen, USA, Michael Parsons, UK, Rosine Jozef Perelberg, UK, Adam Phillips, UK, Jed Sekoff, UK, Gregorio Kohon, UK
