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I am new to the forum and would like to introduce myself and my research.
I am a parent infant psychoanalytic psychotherapist doing professional doctorate research on the question of what leads to change in personal relationships in families with children displaying pre-autistic behaviours? In this study I am exploring whether there is a correlation between the changes in the parent’s internal representations and the changes in the symptoms of the autistic child over the course of a six-month treatment of parent infant psychotherapy.
My study focuses on the interactive process between a child/baby with autistic characteristics, and the parental internal representations of parents (arising from the parents own parents). The connection is circular; each (autism and parental internal representations) affecting the other. My thesis postulates that a psychotherapeutic parent infant intervention will alter both parental inner states, and the autistic symptoms.
I would welcome dialogue with anyone who is interested in this field, especially with regard to the operationalization of internal representations; also any suggestions of papers that will assist me in thinking about a clear protocol for gauging parental inner states.
I look forward to sharing with you.
With best wishes
Yvonne Osafo MSc.
Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychotherapist (Birkbeck)
Parent-Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (SIMH, UKCP)
07764 236676
www.yvonneosafopsychotherapist.com
