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Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Member of International Psychoanalytic Association, Psike İstanbul. Founding member and training secretary of İzmir Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies Association. She completed her graduate studies in İstanbul University and postgraduate studies in Ege University, Clinical Psychology Department. She has worked as a clinical psychologist of Ege University Faculty of Medicine Department of Psychiatry-Psychotherapy Unit between 2003-2013. She completed the infant observation study that lasted for 2 years linked with The Tavistock Clinic of London and Dokuz Eylül University, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has her clinical practice with children, adolescents and adults. She is a part time instructor in the Tınaztepe University Clinical Psychology Department.
Creating and rooting in one’s own corner
Abstract:
The baby first settles and get rooted in her mother’s mind even before the mother gets pregnant. This is a process which is identified with many complex affective states, emotions and representations. The mother’s relation with her not yet born baby is coloured with her projections and the unthought but known part of her earlier roots and narrative. The mother and the baby dyad settles and gets rooted in a room, both metaphorically and actually, and the restarted a process of cohabitation. During this process, the formless structures that come from baby gets its form and meaning through the mother’s mind. Bion named this function as the alphafunction. Ferro takes this theory further and by combining it with the field theory, he examines how to handle the affective components that emerges in the analytic field. In this presentation, I will explore the first steps of settling and rooting process in the mother’s (therapist’s) mind through a sequence from an infant observation and a psychotherapy work.
