Review of "Ghosts in the Nursery"

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This paper discusses an article about the mother-infant bonding process entitled "Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships". The paper discusses the issues presented in the article including mother-infant bonding, impaired relationships, childhood trauma, parental disengagement and resistance to therapy. The paper also discusses treatment for these problems as well as how important to the mother/child-bonding process it is to break negative patterns brought on by the past.

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"The ghosts referred to in "Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships" are the uninvited guests or intruders who interfere with the establishment of mother-infant bonding. As phrased by the authors in every nursery there are ghosts. They are the visitors from the unremembered past of the parents. The problem is that these intruders from the past can often hamper, even cripple, the security and development of infants. This paper will discuss issues presented in the article including parental disengagement, parental motivation..."

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