Brooke Laufer
Biographic Data
| ID | 7390631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brooke Laufer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brooke |
| FAMILY NAME | Laufer |
| SIGNATURE | LAUFER B |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4733-1478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Trump’s Win Sends Therapists Into Crisis
The mental health field is collectively fixated on the perceived sociopolitical despair caused by Donald Trump’s reelection victory. This fixation is premised on the assumption that the politics espoused and represented by Donald Trump is persecuting mental health professionals, even as those professionals see themselves as saviors of the oppressed. As Brooke Laufer explains, “Therapy providers have lost sight of neutrality in their victim/savior…
Interpreting the Infanticidal Mother’s Act
The reasons for maternal infanticide have rarely been approached. The absence of analysis leaves plenty of opportunity to maintain the assumption that the infanticidal mother is a mad or bad mother. Examining a mother’s possible motivations to kill her child from clinical, sociological, psychoanalytical, and political angles can decrease harm and perhaps help us to understand why maternal infanticide is an inevitable part of human life. Moreover,…
The Infanticidal Mother as the Speaking Subject
The infanticidal mother has been represented in culture and in our psyches in various forms, but consistently as monstrous or mad. She has become the object and the catchall for our bad mother or Death Mother complexes and drives. In her work with such women the author hears their stories, not as monstrous, evil, or crazy, but as subjects with stories to tell, of which we know only the ending. By continuing to keep the infanticidal mother as Othe…
The Intersection of Systems in the Infanticidal Mother
The infanticidal mother is not a singular event but a person affected and constructed by intersecting systems. Mothers who commit infanticide often have disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, are socially isolated, are full-time caregivers, are women of color, and are victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, an infanticidal mother has crucial experiences with the police and the law that crystalize her identity. All of these factors—class, rac…
Medea as the Modern Mother
Infanticide is both a horrifying and unsolved dilemma of today’s society. Neither the field of psychology nor the legal system has adequately healed or contained this phenomenon, as the number of baby deaths at the hands of their mothers has remained consistent if not rising. Punishment lacks any deterrent power as most infanticides at the hands of mothers are done in states of psychosis. It is worthwhile to examine the basis and context of mater…
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Medea as the Modern Mother
Infanticide is both a horrifying and unsolved dilemma of today’s society. Neither the field of psychology nor the legal system has adequately healed or contained this phenomenon, as the number of baby deaths at the hands of their mothers has remained consistent if not rising. Punishment lacks any deterrent power as most infanticides at the hands of mothers are done in states of psychosis. It is worthwhile to examine the basis and context of mater…
The Infanticidal Mother as the Speaking Subject
The infanticidal mother has been represented in culture and in our psyches in various forms, but consistently as monstrous or mad. She has become the object and the catchall for our bad mother or Death Mother complexes and drives. In her work with such women the author hears their stories, not as monstrous, evil, or crazy, but as subjects with stories to tell, of which we know only the ending. By continuing to keep the infanticidal mother as Othe…
The Intersection of Systems in the Infanticidal Mother
The infanticidal mother is not a singular event but a person affected and constructed by intersecting systems. Mothers who commit infanticide often have disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, are socially isolated, are full-time caregivers, are women of color, and are victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, an infanticidal mother has crucial experiences with the police and the law that crystalize her identity. All of these factors—class, rac…
Interpreting the Infanticidal Mother’s Act
The reasons for maternal infanticide have rarely been approached. The absence of analysis leaves plenty of opportunity to maintain the assumption that the infanticidal mother is a mad or bad mother. Examining a mother’s possible motivations to kill her child from clinical, sociological, psychoanalytical, and political angles can decrease harm and perhaps help us to understand why maternal infanticide is an inevitable part of human life. Moreover,…
Trump’s Win Sends Therapists Into Crisis
The mental health field is collectively fixated on the perceived sociopolitical despair caused by Donald Trump’s reelection victory. This fixation is premised on the assumption that the politics espoused and represented by Donald Trump is persecuting mental health professionals, even as those professionals see themselves as saviors of the oppressed. As Brooke Laufer explains, “Therapy providers have lost sight of neutrality in their victim/savior…
Psychology (5 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)