Maternal identities, care and intersubjectivity: A psycho-social approach
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Social Sciences
Abstract
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Organisations
- The Open University (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Collaboration)
- Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Collaboration)
- Goldsmiths University of London (Collaboration)
- University of Central Lancashire (Collaboration)
- Higher Institute of Applied Psychology (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Wendy Hollway (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Birnbaum GE
(2008)
The thin line between reality and imagination: attachment orientations and the effects of relationship threats on sexual fantasies.
in Personality & social psychology bulletin
Bromley, S.; Clarke, J.; Hinchliffe, S.; Taylor, S.
(2010)
Exploring Social Lives
Cathy Urwin (Co-Author)
(2011)
Culture as a process lived through the person
Clarke, Simon; Hahn, Herbert; Hoggett, Paul
(2008)
Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis
Elliott H
(2012)
Research encounters, reflexivity and supervision
in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Froggett L
(2010)
Psychosocial research analysis and scenic understanding
in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
Given, Lisa M.
(2008)
The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Given, Lisa M.
(2008)
The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Hollway W
(2008)
Doing Intellectual Disagreement Differently?
in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
Hollway W
(2012)
Infant observation: opportunities, challenges, threats
in Infant Observation
| Title | Mum's over the moon |
| Description | This actor-recorded prose poem was written using the data from psychoanalytically informed interviews and observations to convey the upheavals, everyday experiences and surrounding relationships of one (Bangladeshi heritage) first time mother. Four versions of different lengths and emphases are available. The shortest submitted to 'Studies in the Maternal' for a special issue entitled 'The Surprise of the Real'. The actor had access to the participant's recorded interviews and imitated her voice, rhythms, accent and speech patterns in an attempt to preserve the rich voice information often lost in data analysis. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | unknown |
| Description | Systematic principles and practices guiding psychoanalytically-informed psycho-social research, and innovations in the understanding of maternal identity transition, have cumulative impact across disciplinary boundaries (mainly psychology, sociology, social policy, psychotherapy, health, gender studies, philosophy), disseminated through publications, lectures, talks, workshops and contacts with research networks, groups and individuals. Specifically availability of theoretically elaborated, empirically evidenced, psycho-social accounts of: researcher objectivity, derived from the object relations psychoanalysis' accounts of thinking (Bion) and imagination (Winnicott), that transcend entrenched binaries in western Enlightenment thought: thinking-feeling (cognition-emotion), autonomy-relatedness, objectivity-subjectivity. qualitative research practices covering the whole research process (design, consent, fieldwork, data analysis, writing), which stress reflection on emotional (subjective) responses, supported by thinking procedures and other minds (groups and supervision) post-natal depression viewed through the lens of 'fragilisation', involving loss of the singleness of identity starting in the prenatal, trans-subjective state elaborated in matrixial theory (Ettinger), heightened when faced with the non-negotiable needs of a new vulnerable infant and situated in a social-discursive context of an equality model based on sameness to men 'becoming through culture' that does not start with cultural difference or a binary of individuality- collectivism, includes an account of developing agency, demonstrates personal drawing on cultural resources and also a larger process of cultural change in the (Bangladeshi-London) community the importance of new mothers' mothers and intergenerational transmission of maternal knowing through unconscious identification and embodied early experience unavailable to language. |
| Exploitation Route | Recogntion of pre-natal/pre-maternal joint experience in policy relating to early motherhood and differentiation of this period of mothering from 'parenting' Factoring in the considerable upheavals involved in women's identities on becoming mothers and the challenges incurred in gender relations the availability of a detailed, comprehensive account of an alternative epistemology and methodology for identity research and, more broadly, psycho-social research an elaborated alternative ethical practice for qualitative empirical research |
| Sectors | Education,Healthcare |
| Description | Talks, workshops, conferences and other networking activities, targeting academic and professional groups and institutions, followed by creative responses to requests resulting from these. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2009 |
| Sector | Healthcare,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural |
| Description | A psychosocial analysis of postnatal depression |
| Organisation | Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
| Department | Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Post natal depression : a case-based analysis providing a psychosocial account of pnd |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | In between reality and imagination |
| Organisation | University of Central Lancashire |
| Department | Psychosocial Research Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contribution ot European collaboration special issue on Lorenzer |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Personal Development and Socio-cultural Change |
| Organisation | Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
| Department | Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 10 scholars met at Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway using my 'becoming a mother' data, over a six-week period as part of a Norwegian government funded project 2011. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Psychosocial methodology |
| Organisation | Higher Institute of Applied Psychology |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided training in psychosocial methodology |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | becoming a mother through culture |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | conference input and journal article from time at Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | becoming a mother through culture, part two |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | 2nd theme is family living arrangements |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | mixedness and hybridity |
| Organisation | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | special journal issue came out of Fellowship workshop on mixedness |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Psychoanalytically informed research : translation from clinical theory to the research field |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Public lectures to academics and professionals; workshops; publication in professional magazine (The Psychotherapist - in press); teaching and examining on professional doctorate courses (D.Clin Psy, D. Clinical Child Psychotherapy) continuing influence on research methods choices, including for professional trainings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 |