Rejection: Oppenheim’s (1919) Misopädie
A 36 year old woman with tocophobia married on condition she would never become pregnant
She was bitterly angry when she conceived
After the birth, she was cold & indifferent, and unable to cuddle or kiss her daughter, who seemed like a foreign being
Her husband had to employ another woman to care for her
A 36 year old ‘tomboy’,with a prejudice against children, made a suicide attempt on her wedding night
In her 1st pregnancy, she threatened to drive a nail into the foetus, but bonded well
She reacted with the same fury to the second pregnancy. She hated the child, who remained at home
She refused to see the third child, who was admitted to an institution