Are you my mother

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Are you my mother?

• Presenter Maggie Askew
• Counsellor/Educator Palmerston North PGF

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• Study of caseload over 7 years
• Up to 12 clients per year present with
  uncharacteristic violence

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• Similarities in backgrounds
• All had
• Poor maternal attachment/bonding
• Trauma or abandonment in early childhood

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• Trust difficulties
• All describe feeling some or all in their lives
• Depression
• Insecurity
• Fearfulness
• Anxiety (panic attacks)
• Loneliness
• Poor social skills (shy)
• Paranoia

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• All heavily emphasise when gambling on Pokie
  machines
• Feeling safe/secure
• At peace
• Gratified
• Relaxed
• Nurtured-even love
• No need for social skills

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• Fraudulent nature of the operation of pokie
  machines leads to
• False sense of security
• False sense of comfort
• Hope for the future

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• False supportive experience fails
• Surfaces feelings of
• Early abandonment
• Fear
• Grief
• Rage
• Abandoned child

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• Adult child reacts with need for survival
• Leads to uncharacteristic violence such as
• Domestic violence
• Violence in the workplace
• Violence in the community
• Often leads to imprisonment

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• Therapy
• Gestalt Chair work
• Child/Mother
• Adult/Pokie Machines
• Assist with self nurturing

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• This phenomenon has not been observed following
  cessation of any other form of gambling