New Materialist Mapping the Lived Experiencing of Trauma in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Contemporary therapeutic trauma practice privileges symptom-based models that overlook the potential of materiality and space in trauma healing. The responsibility for recovery is situated in the individual (i.e., the parent). We suggest that trauma and lived experiencing produce and are produced by...
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| description | Contemporary therapeutic trauma practice privileges symptom-based models that overlook the potential of materiality and space in trauma healing. The responsibility for recovery is situated in the individual (i.e., the parent). We suggest that trauma and lived experiencing produce and are produced by the complex relational entanglings of parent, infant, and the dyad with the world. Employing a new materialist orientation to perinatal and infant mental health and trauma, we propose multimodal mapping as an approach that can move with the multisensorial, multidimensional rhythms of trauma and trauma healing as they unfold in a series of now moments; moments that emerge within the context of the parent–infant relationship. This article re-presents the conceptual material and multimodal maps that emerged from our presentation and experiential invitation at the Big Trauma, Big Change Forum, 2024. Organised into two interconnected parts, we begin by emphasising the capacity of multimodal mapping to enable a nuanced translation of lived experiencing for parents and infants, in research and practice, that can transform trauma and potentiate healing. The second part brings focus to a new mapping experiment whereby the audience engaged in a multimodal process of re-configuring the lived experiencing of parent–infant night-time spaces using collage, images, and group process. We include three illustrations of night-time spaces common to parents and infants, exploring the power of materiality, the arts, and objects in transforming the affective, sensory, and embodied affordances that shape mental health. Arts-based mapping interventions can profoundly shape how we understand and respond to trauma, moving us towards a “more-than” conceptualisation of lived experiencing that is sensed and animated in everyday and every “thing” moments. Our hope is to inspire the audience in adopting a relational orientation that innovates new processes of discovery by mapping the human and more-than-human elements involved in parent–infant well-being and the unravelling of trauma. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1db83f3650e340c8abd9fe14f899c7082025-08-20T02:43:21ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602024-12-01131268210.3390/socsci13120682New Materialist Mapping the Lived Experiencing of Trauma in Perinatal and Infant Mental HealthEmma van Daal0Ariel Moy1Independent Researcher, Melbourne 3205, AustraliaThe MIECAT Institute, Melbourne 3065, AustraliaContemporary therapeutic trauma practice privileges symptom-based models that overlook the potential of materiality and space in trauma healing. The responsibility for recovery is situated in the individual (i.e., the parent). We suggest that trauma and lived experiencing produce and are produced by the complex relational entanglings of parent, infant, and the dyad with the world. Employing a new materialist orientation to perinatal and infant mental health and trauma, we propose multimodal mapping as an approach that can move with the multisensorial, multidimensional rhythms of trauma and trauma healing as they unfold in a series of now moments; moments that emerge within the context of the parent–infant relationship. This article re-presents the conceptual material and multimodal maps that emerged from our presentation and experiential invitation at the Big Trauma, Big Change Forum, 2024. Organised into two interconnected parts, we begin by emphasising the capacity of multimodal mapping to enable a nuanced translation of lived experiencing for parents and infants, in research and practice, that can transform trauma and potentiate healing. The second part brings focus to a new mapping experiment whereby the audience engaged in a multimodal process of re-configuring the lived experiencing of parent–infant night-time spaces using collage, images, and group process. We include three illustrations of night-time spaces common to parents and infants, exploring the power of materiality, the arts, and objects in transforming the affective, sensory, and embodied affordances that shape mental health. Arts-based mapping interventions can profoundly shape how we understand and respond to trauma, moving us towards a “more-than” conceptualisation of lived experiencing that is sensed and animated in everyday and every “thing” moments. Our hope is to inspire the audience in adopting a relational orientation that innovates new processes of discovery by mapping the human and more-than-human elements involved in parent–infant well-being and the unravelling of trauma.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/12/682new materialitymultimodalitymappingperinatal and infant mental healthlived experiencing |
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| title_sort | new materialist mapping the lived experiencing of trauma in perinatal and infant mental health |
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