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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|77 pages
The Framework: Women, Babies, and Therapy
chapter Chapter 4|9 pages
Anatomy of a Postpartum Depression Therapist *
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 11|9 pages
First Things First
chapter Chapter 14|4 pages
Collaboration
chapter Chapter 15|6 pages
Sharing the Session
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 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