Publications
It shows you your fears: A qualitative analysis and psychoanalytic interpretation of the Psychotic Content of Postpartum Psychosis
Laufer, B. Psychosis April 2025
Trump’s Win Sends Therapists Into Crisis
Laufer, B. National Association of Scholars
Domestic violence as a risk factor of maternal filicide.
Vileisis, J., Laufer, B. Archive of Womens Mental Health (2024).
Interpreting the Infanticidal Mother’s Act
Jung Journal: Psyche & Culture Vol. 18 2024
The Infanticidal Mother as the Speak Subject
Jung Journal: Psyche & Culture Vol. 17 2023
The Intersection of Systems in the Infanticidal Mother
Jung Journal: Psyche & Culture Vol. 17 2023
Medea as the Modern Mother: Infanticide, Motherhood and Transmutation
Psychological Perspectives, a quarterly journal of Jungian thought
The Dynamics of New Motherhood: Is This the Baby Blues or a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder?
Pulling Down the Moon
Distinguishing Between the Baby Blues and a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder
Illinois Counseling Journal
Beyond countertransference: Therapists’ experiences in clinical relationships with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia
Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches
Podcasts:
The Too-Good Mother: Can we let ourselves be just good enough?
Interview with Mary Harrington for the Reactionary Feminist
Fighting for Nora. Postpartum Psychosis Through the Eyes of a Mother and an Advocate
Mom and Mind Podcast, episode 171
Mental Health is FUN: Surviving 2020
After12 Podcast, episode 25
Crimes of the Century: Marie Noe and Her Cradle of Death
Episode 4.11
Papers:
The Great Mother’s Justice: Restoring Balance in an Age of Excess
Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies 20th Conference - June 19-22, 2025
The Great Mother Archetype and the Necessity of Destruction
JUNGIANEUM/Biennale Conference - May 24-25, 2025
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Postpartum Infanticide
The International Conference C.G. Jung Institute - July 2, 2023
Case Report: Pregnancy Denial and Neonaticide Compounded by Religion and Culture
North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics & Gynecology (NASPOG) 2024 Biennial Meeting - March 8, 2024
The Death Mother Archetype as Infanticide in Contemporary Society
Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies Conference - July 28, 2023
A U.S. Case of Unperceived Pregnancy and Neonaticide: A close examination
The International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health Biennial Conference
Postpartum Psychosis in the Courtroom: Alternative narratives to infanticide
Postpartum Support International Annual Conference
Webinars and Courses:
Lecturer - Contemporary Analytical Psychology and Neo-Jungian Studies
Therapist Neutrality in a Polarised World: Clinical Wisdom for Difficult Conversations
nscience UK - August 2025
The Dark Mirror: Facing and Healing the Negative Mother Within
2 day course nscience UK - May 2025
Honoring the Heretic: Writing the Maternal Body
nscience UK - November 3, 2023
The Good and the Bad Mother from a Jungian Perspective
The C.J. Jung Center - May 20, 2023
Understanding the Hostile Mother and her Shame: Insights from evolutionary science, anthropology, forensic psychology, and the myth of Medea
nscience UK
Adoption, Abandonment and Abortion: Working with Mothers who make Difficult Choices
nscience UK - August 23, 2024
Creative Non-Fiction
Sibling Madness
Creative Non-fiction for Dreamers Creative Writing
A Toast
Creative Non-fiction for the Bangalore Review