Regarding child welfare, health care professionals sometimes face difficulties when they take care of certain mother-child dyads, which may result in partial care failure. A clinical picture is used to illustrate the impacts of traumas experienced by mothers in their home countries on the development of their babies, who were born in France. However, those traumas also seem to contaminate health care professionals in charge of those dyads. The impact of negative counter transferential bonds may result in conflicts regarding approaches and result in mother-child dyad care failure. Those effects of counter-transference reveal a kind of “trauma sharing”. That type of care is part of a research that involves a large number of clinical researchers and analyzes the modes of transmission of traumas between mother and child. We focused on the mother-child interaction, trauma transmission, and the mother-baby-researcher relationship. Analyzing the researcher’s countertransference helps accessing the instance of the child’s experience. We aim to facilitate clinical care and to support professional care of those mother-child dyads.
Trauma; mother-child; transmission; trauma sharing