Hi all,
Thanks so much for the references which have appeared so far. I am off to
the library to find some of them. . .
To Alan, who asked the focus of the research, perhaps I misled you.
Actually I am a psychotherapist, as is my colleague. The data comes from
interviews conducted several years ago by other psychotherapists for
research purposes. The original work explored the experience of pregnant
women but we will be asking the data different questions than the original
study sought. The subjects are not actually "in" therapy, but the data
looks very much like data which might have come from therapeutic sessions
in terms of process, relationship development, etc. We are interested in
the mental activities of the women, eg. how are they thinking (consciously
and unconsciously) of their baby? Are changes in their own relationship
with their mothers, with their husbands reflected in the material? That
sort of thing.
Is this enough?
Harriet Meek
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