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Maternal Representation Reassessed

Berinda Larney

Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia

Penelope Cousens

Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia

Kenneth Patrick Nunn

Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia

This article reports the possible clinical implications of an empirical examination of mental representations, in particular that of maternal representations before and after the birth of a first child. The study investigates maternal representations including the mental organization of perceptions, thoughts and feelings of priminparous women during the third trimester (seventh month) of pregnancy and four months postbirth. We focus on the representations that a woman has of herself, her baby, of her partner, herself as mother and her own mother during pregnancy and the impact of a major life event, namely the birth of the child on those representations.

Key Words: birth experience • father's involvement • gestational age • maternal representations • relational perceptions

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 2, No. 1, 125-144 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/1359104597021009
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