The IFEEL pictures: psychological trauma and perception, and interpretation of child's emotions.

Research has been done into the ways in which mothers who have experienced a series of traumatic war-related experiences perceive and interpret emotions on their babies' faces. The IFEEL instrument was used, which proved to be an interesting instrument for achieving our research goal. The data were analysed using a relatively rarely applied technique of polar taxons. There were visible differences in the way our subjects perceived and interpreted their babies' emotions, and the research results showed these differences as in accordance with the different nature and severity of traumatic events they had experienced.