Mothering
Significant losses and separations can be either an impediment or a spur to development, depending on internal and external circu mstances. This symposium explores varying outcomes from points of view of infants and parents, citing material from a) two research studies using psychoanalytic infant observation, b) clinical research using video to track processes of change in psychotherapy with parents and u nder fives, and c) parent-infant... more
This chapter draws on research interviews with forty mothers of infants to illustrate the influence of certain ideas from the psychology of child development (located historically), not only on current orthodoxies on what women ‘should’ do (the discursive aspect) but on women’s own aspirations and desires (the subjectivity aspect). [In this respect it is psychosocial ‘avant la lettre’.] Urwin draws critically on the post-structuralist... more
This paper describes a CU’s participation in a project based at the Oslo Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), within the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters, addressing Personal development and socio-cultural change. What brought the group of 21 ‘Fellows’ together was a shared ‘psycho-social’ commitment to understanding the personal in the socio-cultural and the socio-cultural in the personal. It had been decided that, during CU’s time... more
