Publications
It shows you your fears: A qualitative analysis and psychoanalytic interpretation of the Psychotic Content of Postpartum Psychosis
Laufer, B. Psychosis April 2025
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
Pacifica Graduate Institute Extension Program - Fall 2025
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