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An Arts Therapeutic Approach to Maternal Holding

Developing Healthy Mother and Child Holding Relationships
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An Arts Therapeutic Approach to Maternal Holding explores the nuanced, long-term experience of maternal holding beyond a child's first year. Using arts-based collaborative inquiry, Ariel Moy shares personal and participant stories from therapeutic sessions, revealing powerful moments of mother-child connection. The book highlights how holding reflects the state of these relationships and offers insights for enhancing the shared experience of mother and child.
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Ideal for therapeutic practitioners and allied health professionals working with mothers and children, as well as those interested in the philosophical and psychological aspects of maternal relationships.

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An Arts Therapeutic Approach to Maternal Holding book aims to draw attention to the intersubjective qualities of the mother/child relationship, explore the question ‘why should holding matter?’ and offer suggestions for therapeutic practice.

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Little research has explored the everyday, simple and long-term experience of maternal holding, particularly after the first year of a child’s life. The research that has been undertaken commonly examines holding through the lens of attachment with a focus on the impact of holding upon the child.

Employing an arts-based collaborative inquiry approach, participants’ stories of holding, as well as the author’s own, convey the significant maternal experiences of holding their children over individual arts therapeutic sessions. Optimal moments of holding included strange, powerful and meaningful experiences of expansion into self-in-relationship. Attention is drawn to the ways in which holding can alert us to the current state of mother/child relationships; how we understand, story and structure those relationships; and the ways in which we can attend to holding in order to develop deeply satisfying experiences of a mother/child ‘us’.

An Arts Therapeutic Approach to Maternal Holding aims to draw attention to the intersubjective qualities of the mother/child relationship, explore why holding matters, and offer suggestions for therapeutic practice. This book is essential reading for therapeutic practitioners and those in allied health fields who work with mothers and children.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367610944

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 39 Halftones, color; 2 Halftones, black and white; 39 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 650g

Pages: 252

About the Author

Ariel Moy is a Teacher and Research Supervisor in therapeutic arts practice at The MIECAT Institute in Melbourne, Australia and has a private practice focusing on mother/child relationships.

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