CPD
Marguerite Reid – The replacement child or penumbra baby
Saturday 16th October 2021 10 am – 2 pm online via zoom
Marguerite Reid is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She co-founded the Perinatal Service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she specialised in perinatal mental health problems. Her doctoral research was in the area of perinatal loss and the mother’s experience when she gives birth to the next baby, this research interest followed her work as a child psychotherapist with replacement children. She has taught in the UK and abroad, and co-founded the Infant Observation Course in Izmir, Turkey where she has taught for many years. She has published in the area of perinatal mental health and
co-edited with Aleksandra Novakovic ‘Couple Stories: Application of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Thinking about Couple Interaction’ (2018). She now works in private practice in South Kensington, London.
The replacement child or penumbra baby
This study day will focus on the impact of a perinatal loss on the child born following that loss. This child has often been called the replacement child, although Marguerite prefers the term the penumbra baby, that is the baby born in the shadow of a perinatal loss.
Thought will be given to the impact on the various life stages of many children when this has been their position in their family of origin. Initially, Marguerite will focus on the mother’s state of mind and the parental couple’s state of mind following a perinatal loss and the way that this may affect their emotional well-being during the next pregnancy. Family dynamics will also be considered.
How do these children and adults present in therapy? There is often a sense of their not feeling good enough, there is the presence of survivor guilt and a fear that they are haunted by the dead baby, who is angry that they are living with the parents of the dead infant. These anxieties often continue during adolescence presenting as social relationship problems, depression and anxiety or they may give rise to risky behaviours. Conception and pregnancy can also be a particularly difficult time for replacement children.
Although the focus will be those children born following a perinatal loss, a birth that follows the loss of an older child will also be considered.
Please note: This Study Day might be disturbing to pregnant women.
Provisional programme:
Registration from 9.45am for prompt start at 10 am
10.00 - 11.30 The mother’s state of mind and the parental couple’s state of mind following a perinatal loss. Consequences for the next pregnancy.
11.30 - 12.00 Questions /discussion.
12.00 - 12.30 break.
12.30 - 2.00 Impact on subsequent children, or ‘penumbra’ child.
Cost of the event: £50 (£40 concessionary rate for Wessex CP trainees)
To book your place, please make payment to:
Wessex Counselling
Sort code: 40 52 40
Account: 00019093
Please quote your name and ‘M Reid CPD’ as reference.
Once payment has been made, please email trainingcoordinator@wessexcp.co.uk to confirm and the link to the event will be sent to you.
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To receive the link, payment of £25 can be paid to: |
Wessex Counselling
Sort code: 40 52 40
Account: 00019093
Please quote your name and ‘Wilson CPD’ as reference.
Once payment has been made, please email trainingcoordinator@wessexcp.co.uk to confirm and the link to the recording and relevant reading will be emailed to you.
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