Being and doing in contemporary motherhoodAbstract
Daisy's request, an light-month pregnant woman, for using flowers during her first therapeutic encounter, was received by the psychotherapist as a very singular way of realizing in the world. Soon we noticed that her doing was profoundly marked by several surgeries and clinical treatments to correct a cleft lip and palate, noted after she was given birth. After this life event Daisy became a "warrior", who was always ready to fight any battle, since they were seen as a solution for her physical problem. Paradoxically, or not, Daisy has "forgotten" the flowers and dared to take a break during her way through doing domain, in order to be accompanied by the therapist through being. Delivery frightened her, because the integration between male and female elements, being and doing, body and psyche was required. We have testified, through Daisy, the lack of tuning between the mother's being and doing in the present.
contemporary motherhood; pregnancy; winnicottian clinic