title: Exploring "psychic transparency" during pregnancy: a mixed-methods approach.
abstract: Psychic transparency is described as a psychic crisis occurring during pregnancy. The objective was to test if it was clinically detectable.
  
  
  
  Seven primiparous and seven nulliparous subjects were recorded during 5 min of spontaneous speech about their dreams. 25 raters from five groups (psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, general practitioners, pregnant women and medical students) listened to the audiotapes. They were asked to rate the probability of the women being pregnant or not. Their ability to discriminate the primiparous women was tested. The probability of being identified correctly or not was calculated for each woman. A qualitative analysis of the speech samples was performed.
  
  
  
  No group of rater was able to correctly classify pregnant and non-pregnant women. However, the raters' choices were not completely random. The wish to be pregnant or to have a baby could be linked to a primiparous classification whereas job priorities could be linked to a nulliparous classification.
  
  
  
  It was not possible to detect Psychic transparency in this study. The wish for a child might be easier to identify. In addition, the raters' choices seemed to be connected to social representations of motherhood.
authors: Pôle Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (PHUPEA), Université de Rennes 1, Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier, Rennes, France.
authors: Cécile
authors: C
authors: Oriol
authors: Pôle Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (PHUPEA), Université de Rennes 1, Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier, Rennes, France.|Laboratoire de la Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS UMR 8158, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors: Sylvie
authors: S
authors: Tordjman
authors: Pôle Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (PHUPEA), Université de Rennes 1, Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier, Rennes, France.|Inserm-EPHE-Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie, Unité U923, GIP Cyceron, CHU Côte de Nacre, Caen, France.
authors: Jacques
authors: J
authors: Dayan
authors: Pôle obstétrique, gynécologie, biologie de la reproduction, chirurgie plastique et reconstructrice, hôpital SUD, CHU de Rennes, Rennes, France.
authors: Patrice
authors: P
authors: Poulain
authors: Service de Psychiatrie de l'enfant, Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
authors: Ouriel
authors: O
authors: Rosenblum
authors: INSERM U669, Paris, France.
authors: Bruno
authors: B
authors: Falissard
authors: Pôle Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (PHUPEA), Université de Rennes 1, Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier, Rennes, France.
authors: Asha
authors: A
authors: Dindoyal
authors: INSERM U669, Paris, France. floriannaudet@gmail.com.|Centre d'Investigation Clinique, INSERM 0203, Unité de Pharmacologie Clinique Unit, Universitary Hospital and University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France. floriannaudet@gmail.com.|Centre d'Investigation Clinique INSERM 1414, Unité de Pharmacologie Clinique, Hôpital de Pontchaillou, 2 rue Henri le Guilloux, 35033, Rennes cedex 9, France. floriannaudet@gmail.com.
authors: Florian
authors: F
authors: Naudet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Dreams; Mixed methods; Pregnancy; Psychic transparency; Psychodynamic