Publications & Presentations | Women's Issues

Swan-Foster, N. (2023). Foreward in Beyond Persona: on individuation and beginnings with Jungian analysts. Routledge.
Swan-Foster, N. (2022). The Other made visible: creative methods, inner figures and agents of change when working through early childhood trauma in adulthood. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 67,4, pp. 1020-1044. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12835 ,
Swan-Foster, N. (Editor) (2020). Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues: Birth, death, rebirth. Routledge.
Swan-Foster, N. (2020). C.G. Jung’s Influence on Art therapy and the Making of the Third, Psychological Perspectives, 63:1, 67-94, https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2020.1739467.
Swan-Foster, N. (2018). Jungian Art Therapy: Dreams, images, and analytical psychology. Routledge.
Swan-Foster, N. (2016). Jungian Art Therapy. Chapter in Approaches to Art Therapy: Theory and Techniques (3rd Edition) Edited by Judith Rubin. Routledge.
Swan-Foster, N. (2014) Book Reivew of Melodies of the Mind: Connections between psychoanalysis and music, by Julie Jaffee Nagel.
Swan-Foster, N. (2013). Feminine Initiation: Training and the Pregnant Woman. IRSJA Spring Conference Evaluation in the Light of Eros. Denver, Colorado.
Swan-Foster, N. (2012). Pregnancy as a feminine initiation. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health 26(4), Summer, 207-233. Article Link
Swan-Foster, N. (2011). [Review of the book Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body’s Wisdom and Creative Intelligence]. Journal of the American Art Therapy Association,28, 191-192.
Swan-Foster, N., Foster, S. & Dorsey, A. (2003) The use of the human figure drawing during pregnancy. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, Volume 21, Number 4, pp. 297-307. Article Link
Swan-Foster, N., Lawlor, M., Scott, L., Angel, D., Ruiz, C., Mana, M. (2001). Inside an art therapy group: The students perspective. The Arts In Psychotherapy, Volume 28(3), 161-174. Article Link
Swan-Foster, N. (Speaker) (2001). Research using a prenatal art therapy intervention. (Cassette Recording No. 1020). Albuquerque, NM: American Art Therapy Association.
Franklin, M., Farrelly-Hansen, M., Marek, B., Swan-Foster, N., & Wallingford, S. (2000). Transpersonal art therapy education. Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. 17(2), 101-110. Article Link
Swan-Foster, N. (1995) Our creativity meets our grief…using the expressive arts for healing. A Heartbreaking Choice. Spring. Pineapple Press.
Swan-Foster, N. (Speaker). (1994). Bump Wisdom. (Cassette Recording No. 63-149). Chicago, IL: American Art Therapy Association.
Swan-Foster, N. (1993) “Pregnancy…Growing Through Our Fears” Boulder Parent.
Peterson, G. (1993). An Easier Childbirth. (Appendix 2.) San Francisco, CA: Tarcher Press.
Swan-Foster, N. (1989) Images of Pregnant Women: Art Therapy as a Tool for Transformation, The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 16. Article Link
Swan-Foster, N. (1986). Images and fears of pregnant women. (Masters Thesis) UMI Dissertation Services.

Professional Presentations

2024 Jungian Art Therapy: Living a Creative Life (Lecture) and Make your own red book: explorations of a creative life through countertransference (Workshop). Jung Institute of Santa Fe.
2024 Image or Art? Jungian Art Therapy, Trauma, and Cultivating a Relationship with the Unconscious. C.G. Jung Society of New Orleans. Online.
2024 The Other Made Visible. Houston Psychoanalytic Society. Speaker’s Series. Online.
2023 Image or Art? From Jung’s Red Book to Jungian Art Therapy. Public Lecture. Podcast
2003 Response to David Hewison’s “The role of theory in training.” Society of Analytical Psychology. London. Online.
2023 Image or Art? Jungian art therapy, analysis, and the relationship with the unconscious. Public Lecture Society of Analytical Psychology. Online
2023 Jungian Art Therapy: Living a Creative Life. Oregon Friends of C.G. Jung. Public Lecture and Workshop. Online
2023 The Creative Instinct: Art Therapy and Creating Your Own Red Book. C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
2022 Image of Art? International Association of Jungian Analysts. Online
2021 Jungian Art Therapy and the Red Book Colorado Art Therapy Association. Online
2021 Jungian Art Therapy and the Tree, Colorado Art Therapy Association. Online
2021 Prenatal Issues and Pandemic Issues for a Panel Presentation on Childbearing Issues. AATA Fall Conference. Online.
2019 C.G. Jung and The Making of the Third. Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA), Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring Meeting.
2019 Understanding Jung’s Role in American Art Therapy. Presentation at the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) 50th Conference.
Kansas City.
2013 What the Hero Left Behind: Pregnancy as a Way of Knowing. Lecture for Boulder Friends of Jung, Boulder, Colorado.
2013 Feminine Initiation, Training, and the Pregnant Woman. Panel Discussion: “Evaluation and Support in the Light of Eros.” Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA), Spring Meeting.
2012 What the Hero Left Behind: Pregnancy as a Way of Knowing. Lecture for C. G. Jung Society of Colorado Springs.
2012 Image and Archetype, New Orleans Jung Seminar
2012 Pregnancy as a Feminine Initiation, New Orleans Jung Seminar
2012 Compassion Fatigue and Art Therapy for the Victim Advocate
2011 The Image and Dream Interpretation. Lecture for Boulder Friends of Jung (BFJ) Spring Concept Series entitled: “The Dream and Dream Interpretation.” Boulder, Colorado.
2009 From Myth to Image: Creating a Vision through Active Imagination and Collage. Workshop for Boulder Friends of Jung. Boulder, CO.
2009 A Study of Jungian Concepts Illustrated by Animals in Fairy Tales. Co-led with Stephen Foster. Workshop series for Boulder Friends of Jung. Spring Concept Series. Boulder, CO.
2007 Lady Ragnell: Fair by Day or Fair by Night? Workshop for Boulder Friends of Jung. Fall Concept Series, Boulder, CO.
2007 Ego-Self Axis, Lecture for Boulder Friends of Jung. Spring Concept Series, Boulder, CO.
2005 Co-presented with Katherine Ward, LCSW Prenatal and Post-partum Depression Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder, CO.
2004 Women’s Issues Made Visible Through Art Therapy. Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Conference, Keystone, CO.
2004 Weekend Art Therapy Workshop: The Pregnant Woman. Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI
2003 The Tasks of Psyche and the Feminine Initiation Process. Invited workshop for the Colorado Midwife Study Group.
2003 Seeds, Wool, Water: Listening to Psyche on the Pregnant Journey. Workshop accepted by the American Art Therapy Conference, Chicago, IL.
2001 Research Using a Prenatal Art Therapy Intervention and Inventory (PATII). American Art Therapy Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2001 Healing the Doula – Self Care. Rocky Mountain Doula Educators Retreat, Estes Park, CO.
1999 Transpersonal Approaches to Art Therapy Training, American Art Therapy Conference, Orlando, FL.
1999 A Place for Voice in a Short-Term Transpersonal Art Therapy Training Group. American Art Therapy Confererence, Orlando, FL.
1998 Art Therapy for Childbearing Transitions. A focus group for the American Art Therapy Conference, Portland, OR.
1997 Two Christian Pathways: one with images, one without. Transpersonal Art Therapy Conference, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO.
1997 Art Therapy for Childbearing Transitions. A focus group for the American Art Therapy Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
1997 The Art of Conception, Art Therapy for Pregnancy, Birth and Loss. Soul Food Conference, Denver, CO.
1997 The Art of Conception, Art Therapy for Pregnancy, Birth and Loss. Art Therapy Association of Colorado.
1996 Pregnancy: a personal journey documented by the visual image. Workshop for BABI, Boulder, CO.
1996 Art Therapy Workshop for the Women of Wisdom Conference, Loveland, CO.
1996 Drawing out the Emotions through Art Therapy. Brain Injury Association of Colorado National Conference.
1994 Drawing Out the Images of Pregnant Women. Paper Presentation. American Art Therapy Conference, Chicago.
1994 Using Expressive Arts as a Medium for Healing. Ninth National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, Denver. Led two workshops using the expressive arts for couples and healthcare providers dealing with grief/loss.
1993 Environment of the Pregnant Woman. Pre and Perinatal Psychotherapy Congress, Washington, D.C. Poster Session