Mothers Accused and Abused : Addressing Complex Psychological Needs (Hardcover)

Contents

Notes on the contributors

Acknowledgements

Glossary of psychoanalytic terms

Robert D. Hinshelwood

Introduction

Angela Foster

1. Mother, Madonna, Whore: understanding perverse mothering. Reflections on a ground-breaking book

Estela Welldon

2. Caring for the mother and as well as her children

Angela Foster

3. Mothers and the law; mythologies and stereotypes - a woman’s lot?

Helena Kennedy

　

PART TWO

The pain of relationships lived and re-lived

4. Infanticide, matricide or suicide

Carine Minne

5. Treating violent men: the significance of the mother-son relationship

Celia Taylor

6. Staff accused and abused; managing anxiety, pain and distress in the system of care

Angela Foster

　

PART THREE

Mothers in prison

7. Transition to motherhood and becoming a child-less mother in prison

Laura Abbott

8. Therapy with a mother and baby in prison: ‘It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found’ (Winnicott 1963)

Pamela Windham Stewart

9. Cover stories: art psychotherapy with mothers in prison who have killed or harmed their children

Jessica Collier

　

PART FOUR

Interventions following child care proceedings

10. Last chance saloon. From repetition to growth; a young mother's journey in brief psychotherapy

Fiona Henderson

11. Better outcomes and better justice; the Family Drug & Alcohol Court

Steve Bambrough, Nick Crichton & Sheena Webb

12. The mother in mind: a therapeutic group for mothers who have had a child removed from their care

Gwen Adshead & Anna Williams

13. Taking a break; the work of Pause

Content provided by Pause

Angela Foster, Beate Schumacher & Davina Jhummun

Index