Abstract Psychodynamic psychotherapists through their vocational training, and especially through developmental and psychoanalytic theories, are exposed to intense discursive and theoretical models of ideal motherhood and child development that they use to inform their therapeutic practice. In this article, nine psychodynamic psychotherapist-mothers are interviewed to examine how the identities of psychotherapist and mother shape, enrich, and conflict with one another. The results of these interviews suggest that the identity shifts involved in becoming a mother are continuous and that—alongside the negotiation of the relational demands of an infant—, psychotherapist-mothers experience transitions in their relationships to theory. The voice of theory was found to act as both an analytic and/or anti-analytic third. The experience appears to be one of the constantly evolving re-integration. Overall, the challenge for psychotherapist-mothers is to reflect on their relationships to theory, in order to acknowledge and explore those aspects that feel punitive and those that feel helpful.

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实践理论：既是心理动力学心理治疗师又是母亲的复杂性

摘要 心理动力学心理治疗师通过他们的职业培训，特别是通过发展和精神分析理论，接触到理想母婴发展的强烈话语和理论模型，他们用这些模型来指导他们的治疗实践。在本文中，九位心理动力学心理治疗师-母亲接受了采访，以研究心理治疗师和母亲的身份如何塑造、丰富和相互冲突。这些访谈的结果表明，成为母亲所涉及的身份转变是持续的，并且——除了对婴儿的关系需求进行谈判之外——心理治疗师 - 母亲在他们的关系中经历了向理论的转变。理论的声音被发现同时充当分析和/或反分析的第三者。这种体验似乎是不断发展的重新整合之一。总的来说，心理治疗师母亲面临的挑战是反思他们与理论的关系，以承认和探索那些感觉惩罚性的方面和那些感觉有帮助的方面。