The Infant Mental Health Podcast

Episode 25: Ghosts and Angels in the Nursery

• Amy Zuniga • Episode 25

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In this episode, Natalie and I discuss the concepts of Ghosts in the Nursery and Angels in the Nursery.  Please see the following references for the full articles:

Fraiberg, S., Adelson, E., & Shapiro, V. (1975). Ghosts in the nursery: A psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant-mother relationships. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 23(3), 437-465.

Lieberman, A. F., Padron, E., Van Horn, P., & Harris, W. W. (2005). Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences. Infant Mental Health Journal, 26(6), 504-520.

This video is also helpful in clarifying what is meant by ghosts and angels:
https://youtu.be/sd5kmUwU6J8?si=h_5JbWNSd8aZKCrI

Thanks for listening!