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

Somatic Maternal Healing introduces a cutting-edge understanding of the body into the growing field of perinatal mental health.

List 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

About the author

Helena Vissing, PsyD, SEP, PMH-C, is a licensed psychologist and Somatic Experiencing® practitioner based in Northern California. She is certified in perinatal mental health and specializes in trauma treatment and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Summary

Somatic Maternal Healing introduces a cutting-edge understanding of the body into the growing field of perinatal mental health.

Product details

• Authors: Helena Vissing, Helena (Private Practice Vissing
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032315225
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231522-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, MEDICAL / Perinatology & Neonatology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Psychotherapy, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias, Neonatal Medicine