An infant's experience as a selfobject

From: American Journal of Psychotherapy | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

An Infant's Experience as a Selfobject*

Exploration of the clinical literature shows an awareness that an infant's experience as a selfobject often is traumatic, but if there is an experience of mutuality, the trauma might be avoided. Where such mutuality does not occur, an infant's experience of constantly repairing a depressed parent, or of being blamed, abused or having an identity imposed by a parent, leads to exhaustion and/or traumatization. Kohut's paradigmatic case of Mr. Z is presented as an example of the distressful effects of being a selfobject (of idealization) for a mother ...

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