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Using a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, Laufer examines the topic of maternal infanticide through the lens of Jungian theory and presents an integrated and forensic view of this issue as an aggregate of personal and political moments, and as a feminine and feminist outcry urging human evolution.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Infanticide 2. The Death Mother Archetype 3. The Infanticidal Mother: A Speaking Subject 4. An Intersection of Systems 5. Domestic Violence as Infanticide 6. Motherhood: From Genesis to Modernity 7. Your Mother Wanted to Kill You 8. Abandonment, Adoption, and Abortion 9. Interpreting the Act 10. Obviation and Antidote 11. The Transmutation of the Infanticidal Mother
About the author
Brooke Laufer, Psy.D., is an independent scholar, writer, and clinician with a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has analytic training and a deep interest in motherhood, perinatal mood disorders, and infanticide. Dr. Laufer treats women with postpartum illnesses and facilitates groups for women who have experienced postpartum psychosis. She lectures on the dynamics of maternal filicide. She also serves as a forensic evaluator and expert witness specializing in cases of infanticide and maternal filicide.
Summary
Using a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, Laufer examines the topic of maternal infanticide through the lens of Jungian theory and presents an integrated and forensic view of this issue as an aggregate of personal and political moments, and as a feminine and feminist outcry urging human evolution.
