Post-Natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to MotherhoodRoutledge, 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. |
Table des matières
Womens experience of motherhood | 5 |
Competing explanations of postnatal depression | 23 |
The context of postnatal depression | 36 |
Postnatal care and maternity blues | 54 |
Reflexivity intervention and the construction of postnatal depression | 68 |
Loss happiness and postnatal depression the ultimate paradox | 87 |
Knowledge myth and the meaning of postnatal depression | 99 |
Profiles of the participants | 111 |
Methods | 125 |
Interview guide | 131 |
Postal questionnaire | 132 |
References | 133 |
Author index | 142 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Post-natal Depression: Psychology, Science, and the Transition to Motherhood Paula Nicolson Aucun aperçu disponible - 1998 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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