Susan Hogan is Professor of Arts and Health, University of Derby, and a Professorial Fellow, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham. Her books to-date are: Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy; Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy; Gender Issues in Art Therapy; Conception Diary: Thinking About Pregnancy and Motherhood; Revisiting Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy; The Introductory Guide to Art Therapy; Art Therapy Theories: A Critical Introduction; Arts Therapies and Gender Issues: International Perspectives on Research; Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body and The Maternal Tug: Ambivalence, Identity, and Agency.

1. Arts in health: pregnancy, birth and new parenthood; 2. Metaphorically maternal: finding potential space through the experience of grief and loss associated with infertility; 3. Art Therapy and pregnancy loss: a secret grief; 4. Overcoming severe fear in late pregnancy. The use of Art Therapy in maternal healthcare, in the south of Sweden; 5. Lost and found: locating meaning within the landscape of perinatal loss; 6. Reframing motherhood: photography as a creative application to re-image mother; 7. Representations of motherhood: normative and transgressive constructions; 8. Recovery stories: transitional identities and the ambivalence of the maternal experience; 9. Where can we make our home? In-utero images and thinking in the running of a small therapeutic group for mothers and their young children affected by domestic abuse; 10. `Myself as a Tree¿: the enabling power of an Art Therapy intervention in clinical work with postnatally distressed women-mothers; 11. Obstetric violence: silenced issues; 12. Artful trans-itions and the queering of pregnancy, birth and (m)othering; 13. Mothering mothers: an exploration of self-referred, self-funded, six-week Art Therapy groups for new mothers; 14. Mechanisms of change within a dyadic model of Art Therapy for parents and their infants; 15. And if the bough breaks: the use of individual Art Therapy within a perinatal mental health service; 16: Cases on the border: perinatal parent-infant work involving migrants, video analysis and art psychotherapy; 17. Art Therapy for motherhood and families as a way to support positive parenting.