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“I wonder if you will be sad?”: Employing the concept of mentalization psychosocially with low-income mothers
Psychoanalysis, culture & society
2024
Abstract
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.
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- Title
- “I wonder if you will be sad?”: Employing the concept of mentalization psychosocially with low-income mothers
- Authors/Creators
- Lisa Saville Young - Murdoch University, School of PsychologySiobhán Kinahan Sweeney
- Publication Details
- Psychoanalysis, culture & society
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Identifiers
- 991005680464907891
- Copyright
- The Author(s) 2024
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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