"I wonder if you will be sad?": Employing the concept of mentalization psychosocially with low-income mothers.

Autor:	Young, Lisa Saville, Sweeney, Siobhán Kinahan
Předmět:	SOUTH Africans DISCOURSE analysis MENTALIZATION MOTHERS DATA analysis
Zdroj:	Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society; Sep2024, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p378-395, 18p
Abstrakt:	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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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