![]() ![]() Overall one can conclude that the participants' defence against their own and their clients' disallowed feelings reflects the influence of Western culture and the psychodynamic discourse, thus highlighting the need for therapists to be particularly aware of their cultural and theoretical conditioning when working with mothers. 'Hate' was considered too harsh a word when discussing their clients' maternal ambivalence. There was a general suppression of both their own and their clients' persecutory guilt and aggression. The multiple roles of the participants (therapists/parents/children) challenged their ability to remain with the clients' ambivalence, as they instead identified with the clients' (vulnerable) children. The qualitative data was analysed and interpreted according to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith et al., 2009). ![]() By interviewing six therapists about their experience of working with maternal ambivalence, this study attempts to present maternal subjectivity within the psychodynamic frame. ![]() Psychodynamic theory and training may contribute to this due to its infant-centric focus and 'mother-blaming' discourse (Caplan and Hall-McCorquodale, 1985). Western culture's preoccupation with the positive sides to motherhood may lead to a suppression of disallowed feelings thus triggering unbearable maternal ambivalence (Parker, 2010). This paper offers an insight into how maternal ambivalence is experienced. ![]()
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