PMID: 2094485Nov 1, 1990Paper

The analyst's pregnancy: fantasy or reality? Or does the reality surpass the fiction?

Santé mentale au Québec
M Hazan

Abstract

This article focuses on the pregnancy of analysts and its impact on the (reality) within analytical treatment. In this situation, the analyst on the one hand is caught between words and action, and on the other hand, begins to realize her pregnancy has an effect on patients, namely through emotional intensification of transference, almost instant awareness of the pregnancy by some, which incidentally sometimes leads to silence in the form of denial or inhibition. The analyst herself, in a transferential reaction, could seek to break the silence, along with the interrelation, while being torn between the "maternal preoccupations" directed toward her child as well as toward her patient. Beyond the study of attitudes or stereotyped themes, this article tries of identify the "transference dynamics" brought on by the issue of an analyst's pregnancy. In conclusion, the analyst's pregnancy, during the course of treatment, appears to distance itself from its event-related qualities and transforms itself into a mix of fantasy and reality, which can be analyzed like a dream or a deep-rooted souvenir.

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