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9170073

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-7-9
pubmed:abstractText
In working with mothers' responses to the total or partial loss of their child, it becomes evident that, at one level, they experience such a loss as an injury to the integrity of their body ego, which includes the child. Their capacity to invest the child as a bodily part of themselves as well as to release him and transfer bodily ownership to him in the course of personality growth necessitates flexible body boundaries. This characteristic of the female body ego is both gratifying and threatening to the mother as well as to others. It also has a profound impact on the growing boy's and girl's attempts to differentiate themselves from the mother bodily and to delineate their own sex-specific body ego. The nature and outcome of this difficult process has a significant effect on women's and men's attitudes to motherhood. These attitudes contain many defensive measures against the primitive anxieties of this early level, contributing perhaps also to the frequent neglect of motherhood in theories of female psychology.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0003-0651
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
44 Suppl
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
429-47
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
On motherhood.
pubmed:affiliation
Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article