ABSTRACT

This book provides a comprehensive look at effective therapy for postpartum depression. Using a blend of professional objectivity, evidence-based research, and personal, straight-forward suggestions gathered from years of experience, this book brings the reader into the private world of therapy with the postpartum woman. Based on Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral theories, and on D.W. Winnicott's "good-enough mother" and the "holding environment" in particular, the book is written by a therapist who has specialized in the treatment of postpartum depression for over 20 years. Therapy and the Postpartum Woman will serve as a companion tool for clinicians and the women they treat.

part 1|77 pages

The Framework: Women, Babies, and Therapy

chapter Chapter 1|9 pages

Masquerade

Clinical Profile

chapter Chapter 2|7 pages

Everything Gets in the Way

Resistance

chapter Chapter 3|6 pages

Don't Call It Therapy

Reframing

chapter Chapter 5|8 pages

The Holding Environment

chapter Chapter 6|9 pages

Making a Diagnosis

chapter Chapter 7|8 pages

The Voice of Depression

chapter Chapter 8|7 pages

Therapeutic Models for Women at Risk

chapter Chapter 9|7 pages

Perfectly Postpartum

part 2|73 pages

The Tools: Doing What Works

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

The Phone Call

Initial Assessment

chapter Chapter 11|9 pages

First Things First

chapter Chapter 12|9 pages

Asking the Right Questions

Screening

chapter Chapter 13|7 pages

Listening to Symptoms

Assessment

chapter Chapter 14|4 pages

Collaboration

chapter Chapter 15|6 pages

Sharing the Session

chapter Chapter 16|9 pages

Medication

Clinician's Perspective

chapter Chapter 17|6 pages

Medication

Client's Perspective

chapter Chapter 18|11 pages

Alternative Therapies

part 3|99 pages

The Work: Clinical Challenges

chapter Chapter 19|7 pages

Scary Thoughts

chapter Chapter 20|8 pages

Help-Resistant Complainer

chapter Chapter 21|9 pages

A Good Girl

chapter Chapter 22|5 pages

Breastfeeding to Death

chapter Chapter 23|5 pages

Countertransference

When Is Yours Mine?

chapter Chapter 24|7 pages

Sleeplessness

chapter Chapter 25|9 pages

The Married State

chapter Chapter 26|7 pages

Bonding

chapter Chapter 27|6 pages

Suicidal Thoughts

chapter Chapter 28|7 pages

Psychosis

chapter Chapter 29|6 pages

Motherself

chapter Chapter 30|8 pages

Prevention?

chapter Chapter 31|5 pages

Burnout, Boundaries, and Other Pitfalls

part 4|48 pages

The Healing

chapter Chapter 32|5 pages

The Umbilical Factor

chapter Chapter 33|6 pages

The Bracelet

chapter Chapter 34|5 pages

Therapy Exposed

chapter Chapter 35|9 pages

Finding the Power to Heal

chapter Chapter 36|7 pages

Recovery Revealed

chapter Chapter 37|5 pages

The Search for Meaning

When Is Yours Mine?

chapter Chapter 38|4 pages

The Quintessential Mother

When Is Yours Mine?