Abstract

ESTEVES, Carolina Marocco  and  PICCININI, Cesar Augusto. Contributions and specificities of the Winnicottian clinic for prematurity: Evidence from two cases. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2022, vol.34, n.2, pp. 355-379. ISSN 0103-5665.  http://dx.doi.org/10.33208/PC1980-5438v0034n02A07.

The present study investigated the contributions of the principles and techniques of Winnicott's clinic in the care of two mothers and their babies in the context of prematurity. In the first case, the mother was 20 years old and the daughter was born at 27 weeks gestational age, weighing 1,020 grams, and stayed 81 days in the hospital. In the second, the mother was 21 years old and the twin daughters were born at 27 weeks gestational age, weighing 1,600 grams, and stayed 49 days in the hospital. Care was provided during the babies' hospitalization. The focus of the analysis of the results was on the process of care, considering five thematic axes derived from the sessions: tolerance and reliability; constant and reliable setting; support for the mothers in the first approaches to their daughters; room for the elaboration of conjugal and family conflicts; and challenges and impasses of the Winnicottian clinic for prematurity. The results revealed that the consultations helped the mothers in their difficulties facing maternity, as well as to verbalize and elaborate the guilt, losses, mourning and fears that the experience of premature birth adds to maternity.

Keywords : clinic; premature babies; maternity.

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