Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues

Nora Swan-Foster, MA, LPC, ATR-BC, NCPsyA is a Jungian analyst and Jungian art therapist in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Nora is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and is the author of Jungian Art Therapy.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Background Considerations for Childbearing Issues and Art Therapy; Part 1: Art Therapy: Pregnancy; Chapter 2; The Juxtaposition of Rupture and Repair: Exploring Trauma and Resilience with Women on the Paths of Childbearing, Birth and Motherhood; Chapter 3: Prenatal Art Therapy and Feminine Initiation: When Pregnant Imagination Gives Birth to Maternal Identity; Chapter 4:Supervising the Pregnant Art Therapist: Integrating Reflective Developmental and Arts-based Supervision Approaches; Chapter 5: Using Art to Prepare for Births as a Doula-Grandmothe; Part 2: Art Therapy: Postpartum; Chapter 6: Going on Being: Losing and Finding a New Identity in the Early Phases of Treatment with Postpartum Mothers; Chapter 7: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder: Processing Trauma Through Couples’ Art Therapy; Part 3: Art Therapy: Grief and Loss; Chapter 8: Cultivating Aliveness after Pregnancy Loss: Somatic Art Therapy, Ritual and Grief Work; Chapter 9: Honoring the Process: Art Therapy with Mothers of Pediatric Palliative Care Patients; Chapter 10; Motherhood Rounds It Out: Art Therapy with Mothers Without Mothers; Chapter 11: The Use of Japanese Ritual and Art Therapy in Healing from Pregnancy Loss; Part 4: Art Therapy: Special Topics of Childbearing Women; Chapter 12: Where It All Beings: Anthropology as a Method for Engaging with Menstruation and Uncovering Art Therapy Explorations; Chapter 13: Penalizing More Than One: Art Therapy with Prison Inmates Struggling with Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood; Chapter 14: Working with the Huecos: The Art Therapy Space for Undocumented Latina Mothers; Chapter 15: Infertility to Motherhood: Collective Voices in Art Therapy Challenge Social Constructs; Chapter 16: Addressing Motherhood Issues of Sex Trafficking Survivors Through Art Therapy.