Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues

This text introduces readers to the diverse and unique ways art therapy is used with women who are undergoing various stages of the childbearing process including conception pregnancy miscarriage childbirth and postpartum. Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues discusses a range of topics including the role of transference/countertransference attachment and maternal tasks and neuropsychology. The book also addresses several motifs that are outside cultural norms of pregnancy and childbearing such as racial sociopolitical issues grief and loss palliative care midwifery menstruation sex-trafficking disadvantaged populations and incarceration. Each chapter offers research modalities case studies and suggestions on how to work in this field in a new way accompanied by visual representations of different therapy methods and practices. The approachable style will appeal to a range of readers who will come away with a new awareness of art therapy and a greater knowledge of how to work with women as they enter and exit this universal psychobiological experience. . Language: English