Nora Swan-Foster

Recommended Reading

An Introduction to Jung

  • Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by C.G. Jung
  • The Book of Symbols: Reflections on archetypal images, Edited in Chief Ami Ronnberg
  • Individuation in Fairy Tales by Marie Louise Von Franz
  • Jung’s Map of the Soul by Murray Stein
  • Jung on Active Imagination Edited by Joan Chodorow
  • By grief transformed: Dreams and the mourning process by Susan Olson
  • The presence of the feminine in film by Virginia Apperson and John Beebe
  • Crossing to Avalon: A woman’s midlife pilgrimage by Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • Woman Changing Woman: feminine psychology re-conceived through myth and experience by Virginia Beane Rutter
  • The Inner world of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit by Donald Kalsched
  • Descent to the Goddess by Sylvia Brinton Perera
  • The Archetype of Initiation by Robert L. Moore
  • Addiction to Perfection by Marion Woodman
  • Risky Business: A Jungian view of environmental disasters and the nature archetype, by Stephen Foster

Art Therapy Books

  • Art as a Way of Knowing by Pat Allen
  • Art as Medicine, creating a therapy of the imagination by Shaun McNiff
  • Spirituality and Art Therapy Edited by Mimi Farrelly-Hansen
  • Soul’s Palette: drawing on art’s transformative powers for health and wellbeing by Cathy Malchiodi
  • Art and Soul by Howard McConeghey
  • The Revealing Image by Joy Schaverien
  • Focusing-oriented art therapy by Laury Rappaport

Art Therapy Articles

Women and Childbearing Related Issues Books

  • Women’s Bodies Women’s Wisdom by Christiane Northrup
  • Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child by Patricia Cogen
  • Operating Instructions by Annie Lamott
  • The Birth of a Mother: How the motherhood experience changes you forever by Daniel Stern and Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern
  • A Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart: Moving from despair to meaning after the death of a child by Charlotte Mathes PhD
  • An Easier Childbirth, Birthing Normally, and Making Healthy Families by Gayle Peterson
  • Rediscovering Birth by Sheila Kitzinger
  • Immaculate Deception II: myth, magic and birth by Suzanne Arms
  • Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant by Diana Raab
  • Nurturing the Unborn Child by Thomnas Verny and Pamela Weintraub
  • The Pregnancy Bedrest Book and Your Premature Baby and Child by Amy Tracy
  • Mourning Unlived Lives: A psychological study of childbearing loss, by Judith Savage
  • Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: surviving the death of your baby, by Deborah Davis
  • Mourning sickness: Stories and poems about miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss, edited by Missy Martin and Jesse Loren
  • The Infertility Cure, by Randine Lewis
  • Conquering Infertility: Dr. Allice Domar’s Mind/Body Guide to Enhancing Fertility and Coping with Infertility by Alice D. Domar
  • When Survivors Give Birth by Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus

Mindfulness Books

  • In the face of fear: Buddhist wisdom for challenging times, Edited by Barry Boyce
  • Whereever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield
  • When Things Fall Apart: Heart advice for difficult times by Pema Chodron
  • Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstein M.D.
  • Anam Cara: A book of Celtic wisdom by John O’Donohue
  • A Mindful Brain by Dan Siegel

Psychotherapy Books

  • Shorten Your Journey Out of Depression: Get back in balance without the harmful side effects by James Gordon, M.D.
  • Trapped in the Mirror by Elan Golomb
  • In an unspoken voice, by Peter Levine
  • Attachment in psychotherapy, by David Wallin
  • Healing From Trauma by Jasmin Lee Cori, LPC
  • Eating in the Light of the Moon: How women can transform their relationship with food through myths, metaphors, and storytelling by Anita Johnston, PhD.
  • The Freedom From Depression Workbook by Les Carter and Frank Minirth
  • Trust After Trauma: a guide to relationships for survivors and those who love them by Aphrodite Matsakis
  • The Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel