Main description:

Includes notable contributors such as Helena Kennedy and Estella Welldon

Contents:

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Angela Foster

PART ONE

Setting the scene: Reflections on a ground-breaking book

Mother, madonna, whore: understanding perverse mothering: Reflections on a ground-breaking book
Estela V. Welldon

Caring for the mother and as well as her children
Angela Foster

Mothers and the law: Mythologies and stereotypes - a woman's lot?
Helena Kennedy

PART TWO

The pain of relationships lived and re-lived

Infanticide, matricide or suicide
Carine Minne

Treating violent men: The significance of the mother-son relationship
Celia Taylor

Staff accused and abused: Managing anxiety, pain and distress in systems of care
Angela Foster

PART THREE

Mothers in prison

Transition to motherhood and becoming a child-less mother in prison
Laura Abbott

Therapy with a mother and baby in prison
Pamela Windham Stewart

Cover stories: Art psychotherapy with mothers in prison who have killed or harmed their children
Jessica Collier

PART FOUR

Interventions following child care proceedings

Last chance saloon: From repetition to growth, a young mother's journey in brief psychotherapy
Fiona Henderson

Better outcomes and better justice: The Family Drug and Alcohol Court
Steve Bambrough, Nicholas Crichton & Sheena Webb

The mother in mind: A therapeutic group for mothers who have had a child removed from their care
Gwen Adshead & Anna Williams

Taking a break: The work of Pause

Content provided by Pause

PART FIVE

Ways forward

Ways forward

Angela Foster, Beate Schumacher & Davina Jhummun

Glossary of psychoanalytic terms

Robert D. Hinshelwood

Index