Uncovering the Act of Maternal Infanticide from a Psychological, Political, and Jungian Perspective

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-53622-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

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.

The first part of the book will dissect the identity of the infanticidal mother and the Death Mother archetype, with the author providing firsthand accounts of patients that she has worked with in her professional career. The second part of the book focuses on interpreting that act of maternal infanticide, and these chapters will look to the construct of patriarchal Motherhood as a way of explaining the drive and actions of an infanticidal mother. The third and final section of the book takes the concept of evolution and transmutation a step further and addresses what is required in our modern state for the event of maternal infanticide.

This is an important new book for Jungian and analytic clinicians and scholars with an interest in maternal archetypes, as well as psychologists and psychiatrists who specialize in perinatal mental health. It would also be appropriate for forensic psychologists and legal analysts, and academics and clinicians in the fields of women’s health and studies.

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laufer, Brooke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.