I. THE FRAMEWORK: WOMEN, BABIES AND THERAPY. 
Masquerade: Clinical Profile
Everything Gets in the Way: Resistance.
Don't Call it Therapy: Reframing
Anatomy of a PPD Therapist
The Holding Environment
Making a Diagnosis
The Voice of Depression
Therapeutic Models for Women at Risk
Perfectly Postpartum

II. THE TOOLS: DOING WHAT WORKS
Initial Assessment: The Phone Call
First Things First
Screening: Are we asking the right questions?
Assessment: Listening to symptoms
Collaboration
Sharing the Session
Medication: Clinician’s Perspective
Medication: Client’s Perspective
Alternative Therapies

III. THE WORK: CLINICAL CHALLENGES
Scary Thoughts
Help-Resistant Complainer
A Good Girl
Breastfeeding to Death
Countertransference: When is yours, mine?
Sleeplessness
The Married State
Bonding
Suicidal Thoughts
Psychosis
Motherself
Prevention?
Burnout, Boundaries and Other Pitfalls

IV. THE HEALING
The Umbilical Factor
The Bracelet
Therapy Exposed
Finding the Power to Heal
Recovery Revealed
The Search for Meaning
The Quintessential Mother

APPENDIX
Postpartum Pact
PPSC Suicide Assessment
PPSC Symptom List
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
PPSC Initial Session Instruction Pad
PPSC Phone Assessment