caa a22 4500 477104851 CHVBK 20180405111550.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02190554 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02190554 Kabat Roberta 3200 Netherland Avenue, Apt. 5K, 10463, Bronx, New York aut A role-reversal in the mother-daughter relationship [Elektronische Daten] [Roberta Kabat] Psychoanalytic theorists have noted a particular dynamic in the mother-infant relationship in which the emotional needs of the mother predominate. When this situation occurs, the emotional needs of the infant may go unmet, resulting in impaired self-development. Through an integration of the ideas of mainstream psychoanalytic theorists and feminist psychoanalytic thinkers, this paper proposes the idea that, because of the intensity of the mother-daughter relationship, this dynamic may be more prevalent between mothers and daughters than between mothers and sons. A mother-daughter relationship is described in which the mother comes to depend on her daughter for emotional attunement and response, and the mother's selfobject needs predominate. As a consequence, the daughter is unable to develop a cohesive sense of self and experiences difficulty in achieving separation. Two clinical reports are presented to illustrate the way in which this mother-daughter dynamic manifests itself in the patient's life and in the therapeutic relationship. A negative transference dynamic is described resulting from these patient's fear of duplicating their relationship with their mothers in the therapeutic relationship by having to meet the selfobject needs of the therapist. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1996 mother-daughter relationship nationallicence role-reversal nationallicence separation-individuation nationallicence negative transference nationallicence Clinical Social Work Journal Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 24/3(1996-09-01), 255-269 0091-1674 24:3<255 1996 24 10615 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02190554 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02190554 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kabat Roberta 3200 Netherland Avenue, Apt. 5K, 10463, Bronx, New York aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Social Work Journal Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 24/3(1996-09-01), 255-269 0091-1674 24:3<255 1996 24 10615 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer