I wonder if you will be sad

Employing the concept of mentalization psychosocially with low-income mothers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6109863
AutoresLisa Saville Young (0000-0001-5899-1204, Murdoch University), Siobhán Kinahan Sweeney (0000-0003-4591-7608, Rhodes University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen29
Número3
Páginas378-395
Fecha de publicación2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPsychoanalysis Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1088-0763 • E-ISSN: 1543-3390
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/s41282-024-00454-4
OpenAlexW4399884769
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas45

We demonstrate the value of a rapprochement between psychoanalytic work aimed at supporting marginalized mothers and discursive accounts of low-income mothers, providing a psychosocial analysis of data from an interview study with six low-income South African mothers. Employing discourse analysis, we show how instrumental mothering is a dominant and precarious construction in these mothers’ talk. We use the concept of mentalization to track the affective work that accompanies the interactional emergence of this instrumental mothering discourse in a particular interview encounter. The implications of the research are discussed in the light of increasing demands for sociocultural responsive research and clinical practice

Developmental psychology · Low income · Mentalization · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Sociocultural evolution · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Wonder · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology