ABSTRACT
Having given the history of the first three years of life of the sextuplets and the personality profiles of each child, all based on the observations, authors now proceed with a more in-depth investigation into certain significant aspects of relationships within the family. For every new mother, acquiring a new identity involves ambivalent feelings, at times hostile and painful, that she must learn to tolerate, cope with and, eventually, integrate into her own personal identity. This atypical pregnancy and motherhood, to some extent imposed on her and in any case traumatic, became a dramatic challenge for survival, not only in relation to external reality. After the birth of the sextuplets the mother, to maintain group cohesion, becomes the manager of the family organization as well as the absolute, indisputable chief director. One can understand the mother's manic self-defence given her early history of anorexia, fear of sexuality and motherhood and the inherent difficulties of her very burdensome and exceptional situation.
