ABSTRACT
This text introduces readers to the diverse and unique ways art therapy is used with women who are undergoing various stages of the childbearing process, including conception, pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and postpartum.
Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues discusses a range of topics including the role of transference/countertransference, attachment and maternal tasks, and neuropsychology. The book also addresses several motifs that are outside cultural norms of pregnancy and childbearing, such as racial sociopolitical issues, grief and loss, palliative care, midwifery, menstruation, sex-trafficking, disadvantaged populations, and incarceration. Each chapter offers research, modalities, case studies and suggestions on how to work in this field in a new way, accompanied by visual representations of different therapy methods and practices.
The approachable style will appeal to a range of readers who will come away with a new awareness of art therapy and a greater knowledge of how to work with women as they enter and exit this universal, psychobiological experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Art Therapy
chapter 2|10 pages
The Juxtaposition of Rupture and Repair
chapter 3|25 pages
Prenatal Art Therapy and Feminine Initiation 1
chapter 4|19 pages
Supervising the Pregnant Art Therapist
part II|31 pages
Art Therapy
chapter 6|13 pages
Going on Being
chapter 7|16 pages
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder
part III|73 pages
Art Therapy
chapter 8|16 pages
Cultivating Aliveness after Pregnancy Loss
chapter 9|17 pages
Honoring the Process
part IV|81 pages
Art Therapy