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Index
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Front Matter
Part I. Existential Crisis: The Philosophical Tensions of Being a Mother
1. Introduction: The Existential Crisis of Motherhood
2. Confronting Existence: The Existential Dimensions of Becoming a Mother
3. The Corporeal Dimensions of Motherhood
4. Existential Responsibility of Motherhood
5. The Existential Freedom of Mothers
6. Engaging with Uncertainty and Unresolved Meanings During the Transition to Motherhood
Part II. Maternal Mental Health Crisis: Understanding Maternal Mental Health from an Existential Perspective
7. Through the Lens of Trauma: The Experience of Mothering a Very Premature Infant in the First Year After Hospital Discharge
8. Postnatal Depression: An Existential Crisis?
9. Maternal Postnatal Depression: The Fathers’ Experience
Part III. Social Crisis: An Existential Understanding of the Impact on Motherhood of Social and Cultural Aspects
10. Identity and Mothering: The Second Generation of Ghanaian Migrants
11. Motherhood and the Traumatic Death of One’s Child
12. Trying to “Have-It-All” at 30; Timing Motherhood
13. The Experience of Being a Childfree Woman
Part IV. Working with Existential Crisis in Clinical Practice
14. Exploring the Moods of First Time Mothers Through Imagery
15. Existential Group Work with Mothers
16. Conclusion: The Courage to Be
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