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KAHTUNI, Haydée Christinne. Psychotherapist/mother, patient/baby and the required care. Psyche (Sao Paulo) [online]. 2005, vol.9, n.16, pp.197-212. ISSN 1415-1138.

This paper, based on Winnicott’s psychoanalytical theory, intend to discuss some fundamental topics on the functioning of the psychotherapy process in terms of primary maternal preoccupation, identification of the patient’s dependence type, pre-verbal communication and the counter-transference analysis. Some of his concepts as the main maternal functions and the good-enough mother are discussed in order to point some essentials psychotherapist ’s responsibilities and roles concerning the process of psychotherapy. An analogy between the unities mother/baby and psychotherapist/patient is used to discriminate some similarities, specific functions and different roles and conditions of each. We concluded that the psychotherapist has both responsibilities: to attend the needs of the patient and to look after and persecute his own necessary instruments in order to be able to fulfill this target of being “a good enough psychotherapist”.

Palavras-chave : Winnicott; Psychotherapist and patient relationship; Primary maternal preoccupation; Good enough mother; Non-verbal communication; Mutuality experience; Transference-counter transference.

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