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Melinda Pohárnok: The role of parent–child dialogues in self-development: Research on narrative co-construction and its clinical implications
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Domokos Zoltán Csomortáni: Adverse care – the psychoanalytically based theories of psychological overprotection
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Gábor Szőnyi: Group leaders’ practice in Hungary 1984. Assessment of the Hungarian Psychological Association (final study), Budapest, 1985. I.
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Colette Chiland, Anne-Marie Clouet, Michèle Guinot, Bernard Golse, Pierre Jouannet, Patrick Revidi: Fathers of ’new gender’ and their children I. Translated by Anna Sebes
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Research study
Colette Chiland, Anne-Marie Clouet, Michèle Guinot, Bernard Golse, Pierre Jouannet, Patrick Revidi: Fathers of ’new gender’ and their children I. Translated by Anna Sebes
The CECOS center of the Cochain Hospital (Centre d’Etude et de Conservation des Oeufs et du Sperme), (Research and storage centre for sperms)started a programme in 1999 that aims at the artificial insemination (IAD)of transsexual males (transman) and their partners. The project was received with mixed reception and it was discussed in an ethical committee. The emerging questions referred to the following :mental health of a transman, can he be a father, will their children have the chance for normal development, especially development of their sexual identity. They offered the parents to continuously follow their children’s development, to find out if the emerged objections are justified. If so, the programme has to be stopped, but if they have no bases in reality, the programme may continue, and even extend it to the other CECOSs. The parents accepted the continuous following of their children’s development. They began consultation with the parents when the child was one year old, after that in every second year. From 2000 to 2012, 42 children were born (28 boys and 14 girls) from 29 couples. 24 children’s continuous following was done by the end of 2010, and they planned to observe the rest in the next year. It became clear from the observations that the couples were not homosexual and stable couples: the father behaved like a competent father; and the fathers without a penis identified with the male and paternal values of their culture. As to the children, they were all right, developed adequately, seemed to be satisfied with their life, and, in harmony with their gender, they felt to be boys or girls. They suggested to the parents to tell the children about their having been conceived by artificial insemination (IAD), or the transsexuality of their father. No problems came up about IADs. As to transsexuality, however much the father wished to talk to their children about it, they did not know how to verbalise it; one father made a book of drawings, and it helped him to convey with simple words to make the children to understand their childhood, because it is usually difficult to a father to talk about such things naturally. We have no reason to regret our attempt to help transsexual man to become fathers. It will be interesting to see how their children will experience their adolescence.
Keywords: transsexuality – artificial insemination with a donor – fatherhood – social gender identity – following children.
Overview
Melinda Pohárnok: The role of parent–child dialogues in self-development: Research on narrative co-construction and its clinical implications
The paper highlights those aspects of parent–child dialogues by which these interactions could be seen as productive empirical basis of research in linguistic–cognitive and social–emotional development. We assume that parent–child dialogues, especially reminiscing conversations have to be considered from multiple viewpoints. On one hand – mainly from a cognitive psychological perspective – the evolving autobiographical memory and the effects of maternal participation in this process could be investigated. On the other hand – mainly from a psychodynamic perspective – these conversations could be regarded as continuation of preverbal dialogues, and accordingly having significant role in affective meaning making and emotional regulation process. We promote a multidimensional investigation of dialogues, in which the characteristics of mother–child interactions and the variables of the co-constructed narrative are regarded as equally significant aspects of the functioning of the mother–child dyad. The interpretation of these interactive and narrative variables can enrich our knowledge about the joint meaning making processes between mother and child, and provide new opportunity windows for intervention.
Keywords: dialogue – autobiographical memory – maternal elaborative style – affective meaning making
Pearls
Gábor Szőnyi: Group leaders’ practice in Hungary 1984. Assessment of the Hungarian Psychological Association (final study), Budapest, 1985. I.
The study presents the data of a questionnaire made in 1984. The assessment was made by the Hungarian Psychological Association with an aim to have a glance at the spreading of group leaders’ activity, the area of their practice, the various methods, and the group leaders’ qualification. The questioner used for the examination gathered data with the help of direct and indirect questions regarding personal variations, circumstances of group leadership, experiences in group leadership, qualification, and the self assessment of group leaders. The assessment built on the data from 3009 questioners. They were provided by members of the mentioned Association, and by group leaders, who did not belong to any association.
On top of guidance, the examination aimed at giving information for the illumination of professional background of group leadership.
The processing and interpretation of the data we discover that more than 75 percent of the contributors considered the strengthening of professional openness and identity, and asked for a register of group leaders. We can recognise the connection between the group leaders’ and general professional charier, the distribution of areas of application, the qualification of group leaders, frequency of the various modalities, history of their application, the Budapest centred nature of the profession. Components of the training has been analysed, the absence of systematic theoretical education and the critical state of supervision becomes obvious. WE discover that 30 percent of group leaders consider themselves able to lead training groups as well. The author of the assessment points out the most urgent problems and outlines the direction of further development.
The assessment is presented in its entirety in two parts, and only abandoned the decimal arrangement. The first part discusses the position of group leadership, while the second part analyses the group leaders’ education, experience and self assessment
Keywords: group leaders’ activity – applicational areas of group methods – applied methods – group leaders’ qualification
Theoretical study
Domokos Zoltán Csomortáni: Adverse care – the psychoanalytically based theories of psychological overprotection
Reviewing the scientific literature of the last fifty years we can observe that there are more and more articles dealing with parental overprotection. Beside the positive respects of the extensive and interdisciplinary interest (clinical psychology, pediatrics, rehabilitation medicine, sociology, etc.) become more and more spectacular the phenomena that the definition of the notion from several areas as well as the bare communication between these areas lead to definitional problems that in the long run may set back the research and impugns the validity of the results. This article is a part of a longer project in which I try to make a more precise definition of the phenomena in the interest of its effective measurement. The aim of this study is the presentation of the development of parental overprotection term, the psychoanalytic ideas about overprotection, the relation of attachment and detachment processes to overprotection, as well as the role of synchrony effects taking part in the attachment-detachment processes and their distortion in overprotection. At the end of the study we attempt to place the parental overprotection in mentalisation phenomena introduced by modern psychoanalysis making a uniform theoretical framework for the empirical examination of the relationship between parental maltreatments (abuse, neglect, overprotection), attachment disorders and mentalisation.
Key words: parental overprotection – attachment – attachment-detachment processes – interactional synchrony – mentalisation
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