The Dead Mother by Gregorio Kohon

The Dead Mother by Gregorio Kohon

The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of the dead mother to other areas of clinical interest: psychic reality, borderline phenomena, passions and identification. The concept of the 'dead mother' describes a clinical phenomenon, sometimes difficult to identify, but always present in a substantial number of patients. It describes a process by which the image of a living and loving mother is transformed into a distant figure; a toneless, practically inanimate, dead parent. In reality, the mother remains alive, but she has psychically 'died' for the child. This produces a depression in the child, who carries these feelings within him into adult life, as the experience of the loss of the mother's love is followed by the loss of meaning in life. Nothing makes sense any more for the child, but life seems to continue under the appearance of normality. The Dead Mother is a valuable contribution to literature on psychoanalytic and psychotheraputic approaches to grief, loss and depression.

"Readers will find this a valuable book - for the lively dialogue between Green and Kohon, its return to Green's major paper 'The dead mother', for the individual authors' impressive responses to it, and for the glimpse of the walls in the present psychoanalytic scene, which Green has both run up against and surmounted"- Edna O'Shaughnessy, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82 (3), 2001

"Readers will find this a valuable book - for the lively dialogue between Green and Kohon, its return to Green's major paper 'The dead mother', for the individual authors' impressive responses to it, and for the glimpse of the walls in the present psychoanalytic scene, which Green has both run up against and surmounted."- Edna O'Shaughnessy, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82 (3), 2001

Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society. He works in private practice in London.

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ISBN 13	9780415165297
ISBN 10	0415165296
Title	The Dead Mother
Author	Gregorio Kohon
Series	The New Library Of Psychoanalysis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1999-05-20
Number of pages	248
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