Post-Natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

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Routledge, 19 juin 2006 - 160 pages
Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a 'happy mother'. It provides a radical critique of the traditional medical and social science explanations of 'post natal depression' by supplying a systematic feminist psychological analysis of women's experiences following childbirth. Paula Nicolson argues that, far from it being an abnormal, undesirable, pathological condition, it is a normal, healthy response to a series of losses.
Post Natal Depression makes an important contribution to the psychology of women and feminist research and will be of interst to psychologists, social scientists, nurses and doctors.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Womens experience of motherhood
5
2 Competing explanations of PostNatal depression
22
3 The context of PostNatal depression
34
4 PostNatal care and Maternity Blues
51
5 Reflexivity intervention and the construction of PostNatal depression
65
The ultimate paradox
84
7 Knowledge myth and the meaning of PostNatal depression
96
Appendix I Profiles of the participants
107
Appendix II Methods
120
Appendix III Interview guide
125
Appendix IV Postal questionnairesent six months after delivery
127
References
129
Author Index
138
Subject Index
143
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Paula Nicolson is Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the Sheffield School for Health and Related Research, Sheffield University. Her previous publications include Gender, Power and Organization (1996), Female Sexuality (1994; edited with Precilla Choi), and Gender Issues in Clinical Psychology (1992; edited with Jane Ussher).

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