If in your T's room there was a book entitled "The reproduction of mothering" (without googling it. This isn't a right or wrong question) what would you think it was about?

[Erebos]

Honestly, wouldn't have a clue...wouldn't even hazard a guess would probably just pick it up and have a look.

[Erebos]

....now I am going to Google it. ;b

Originally Posted by Erebos

Honestly, wouldn't have a clue...wouldn't even hazard a guess would probably just pick it up and have a look.

But the guesses are enlightening about yourself.

[Lemoncake]

Reproducing mothering effects?

[seeker33]

How to remother your clients?

I used the words "fake mothers as a reproduction means not the original"
T said, Thsts interesting you went to that definition
reproduction. Reproduction means having baby's.

But of course having been adopted. I'd always held on some level the knowledge she wasn't my original mother. She was a reproduction. I didn't connect the word reproduction to the reproductive organs.
Lol. My issue with adoption seeks out wherever it can lol

[toomanycats]

Reparenting

[toomanycats]

That's not even the full title! :P
*googled*

Originally Posted by toomanycats

That's not even the full title! :P
*googled*

Thsts the only bit I could see on the edge of the book on the book shelf. But as I say. It's not about precision.

I like these kinds of free association games. I read the OP only (not the rest of posts) when I had this reaction. I thought about how the mothering style of a woman may be passed onto her child and influence what kind of parent they might become (or not, if it is directly aversive).

And indeed... This is coming from my own work - I am a biologist and some of my work has to do with how traits and behavior are inherited across generations. I did think of reproduction in terms of offspring. I did not even think about my own mother at all, or therapy/therapists even at first. I think it is typical also in a sense that I rarely think/talk much about my own mother, did not do very much even in therapy. And I don't tend to like the idea of reparenting in therapy, so I guess my mind won't go there as the first place. But I am always very preoccupied with my work and its topics. Not surprised that my personal association would go there first.

I also had a second thought then, perhaps it is really just about therapist-client, how some Ts might want to replicate a mother ideal, or how some clients expect that in a maternal transference.

Interestingly, the fake definition did not even occur to me until I read the subsequent post by OP.

I think I would likely have had an entirely different association if it was "The reproduction of fathering". I think that would have reminded me of how I miss my beloved father (died a couple years ago) and how I always think there is no way anyone else could reproduce (replicate) our relationship and his influences on me.

I did google the book since and I might actually read it, seems like something that would interest me in several ways. Thanks for the game