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When reading this clinical material, six areas of inquiry spring to mind: (1) the mother (apart from the others), (2) the baby as individual, (3) the counsellor as observer and stimulus, (4) the mother/counsellor dynamic, (5) the session events, and (6) the context of the behaviour observed.
The overall outcomes in this material - as applied to the six areas above - spring from my contention that the behaviours of the participants in this material are centred in root causes: (1) the mother acts from her own child-identity, (2) the baby ‘fights’, she fights her mother's passivity, the conditions of her own birth, and for the things missing in her own development, and (3) the counsellor identifies with the mother, perhaps prematurely.
These external objects and root causes make up the premises. How do we arrive at psychotherapeutic conclusions? We look at internal objects. So, we begin as the