Where the processes of perinatal parenthood and adolescence intersect, the concept of the “ virtual ” offers an heuristic theoretical and clinical framework. The stakes of a “ virtual object-relation ” are posed there.
The pregnant teenager is a violent collusion of the virtual of adolescence and of parenthood. An account of a psychotherapy in this context provides an opportunity to study the dynamism of a singular virtual object-relation.
Archives par mot-clé : Prenatal parenthood
Sylvain Missonnier : Prenatal parenthood, uncertainty and anticipation
Clinical practice in a maternity ward highlights essential prenatal psychological elements in the perinatal segment of the parenthood process.
Faced with the multiplied uncertainty about how the unborn child will turn out, prenatal parental anticipation is a determining factor. It deserves to be explored in perinatal clinical work as a relevant psychological and psychopathological marker.
In this context, the concept of « virtual object-relation » tries to explore the behavioral, emotional and fantasmatic complexity of the parents/fetus relation and its reappearances, throughout life, at the time of metamorphoses whose outcome is uncertain, such as adolescence.