Overview
- Offers an existential perspective on experiences of motherhood and maternal mental health
- Examines different experiences of being a mother, as well as those of fathers and women who choose to remain child-free
- Explores the philosophical tensions of being a mother, the social and cultural impacts on and of motherhood, and various implications for clinical practice
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Existential Crisis: The Philosophical Tensions of Being a Mother
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Maternal Mental Health Crisis: Understanding Maternal Mental Health from an Existential Perspective
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Social Crisis: An Existential Understanding of the Impact on Motherhood of Social and Cultural Aspects
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Working with Existential Crisis in Clinical Practice
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Claire Arnold-Baker is a counselling psychologist and existential psychotherapist specialising in working with mothers. She is also Course Leader of the DCPsych Programme, a joint programme with The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Middlesex University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Existential Crisis of Motherhood
Editors: Claire Arnold-Baker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56499-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56498-8Published: 20 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56501-5Published: 20 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56499-5Published: 19 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 309
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychotherapy, Gender Studies, Clinical Psychology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Philosophy of Mind