ABSTRACT

Somatic Maternal Healing introduces a cutting-edge understanding of the body into the growing field of perinatal mental health. Chapters lay out a complete trauma treatment model for maternal mental health, integrating psychodynamic and somatic clinical techniques within a systemic perspective. The book applies a biopsychosocial conceptualization of mental health in the perinatal period with a special emphasis on trauma and somatic trauma treatment.

Somatic Maternal Healing is for anyone working clinically with mothers and new families, specifically therapists, clinical social workers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, researchers, academics, clinical educators, and graduate students and trainees within these fields.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Why We Need Maternal Healing that Includes Self, Body, and Society

part |41 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter 1|19 pages

The Question of Embodied Maternal Subjectivity

How Feminist Psychoanalysis Informs Clinical Work with Mothers

chapter 3|23 pages

Resisting Patriarchal Motherhood

From Maternal Bodylessness to Maternal Bodyfulness

part |8 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 6|24 pages

Maternal Bodyfulness

Working with Perinatal Sensory Awareness and Vocabulary

chapter 7|24 pages

Expansion and Integration

Trauma Release During the Perinatal Period