Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health

Author(s) : Helena Vissing

Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 264
  • Category :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Category 2 :
    Counselling
  • Catalogue No : 97484
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032315249
  • ISBN 10 : 1032315245

Table of Contents


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

Part I: Introduction to Part 1: Overview of Trauma in the Perinatal Period
1. The Question of Embodied Maternal Subjectivity: How Feminist Psychoanalysis Informs Clinical Work with Mothers
2. Understanding Trauma in Light of the Biological Changes of Motherhood 3. Resisting Patriarchal Motherhood: From Maternal Bodylessness to Maternal Bodyfulness
4. Rationale and Principles of Somatic Maternal Healing

Part II: Introduction to Part II: Principles, Treatment Goals, and Key Clinical Skills of Maternal Somatic Healing
5. Working Somatically in the Perinatal Transferential Field
6. Maternal Bodyfulness: Working with Perinatal Sensory Awareness and Vocabulary
7. Expansion and Integration: Trauma Release During the Perinatal Period 8. Making Maternal Healing Whole with Clinical Creativity and Biopsychosocial Somatic Treatment Planning

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