{"title":"From birth to the couch: readiness is all.","authors":"Ken Robinson, Julianna Vamos","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09516-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When there are obstacles in the way of being prepared for birth or psychological birth, whether in a perinatal situation or in the analysis of an adult, the analyst must create the conditions in which parents, baby and patient can realize their potentiality for developing. The analyst is bearer of hope in what can feel to be a hopeless world. We offer two clinical vignettes to show the importance of respect, timing and tact in the process of facilitating the freedom to move on towards a creative future. Both vignettes illustrate unconscious communication in action.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"318-341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09516-7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
When there are obstacles in the way of being prepared for birth or psychological birth, whether in a perinatal situation or in the analysis of an adult, the analyst must create the conditions in which parents, baby and patient can realize their potentiality for developing. The analyst is bearer of hope in what can feel to be a hopeless world. We offer two clinical vignettes to show the importance of respect, timing and tact in the process of facilitating the freedom to move on towards a creative future. Both vignettes illustrate unconscious communication in action.
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal''s purpose is to be an international forum for communicating a broad range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional and cultural concepts of psychoanalysis and for presenting related investigations in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal, which welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and comments.