Post-natal Depression: Psychology, Science, and the Transition to MotherhoodPsychology Press, 1998 - 150 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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... role of mother without protest , with positive emotions and with little disturbance to their own lives and those around them . Post - Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a ' happy mother ' . While as many ...
... role of mother without protest , with positive emotions and with little disturbance to their own lives and those around them . Post - Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a ' happy mother ' . While as many ...
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... role that receives decreasing support from government sources in western industrial societies , although these are the very communities where traditional support from extended family networks may no longer be relied upon . To progress ...
... role that receives decreasing support from government sources in western industrial societies , although these are the very communities where traditional support from extended family networks may no longer be relied upon . To progress ...
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... role of mother without protest , exhibit- ing positive emotional reactions , with little disturbance to their own lives and those of their close companions . The medical and popular discourses surround- ing childbirth reflect these ...
... role of mother without protest , exhibit- ing positive emotional reactions , with little disturbance to their own lives and those of their close companions . The medical and popular discourses surround- ing childbirth reflect these ...
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... role , the maternal instinct and the experience of caring for children . It argues that the role of the expert in relation to motherhood and child - care has further bur- dened women by charging them with the responsibility for ensuring ...
... role , the maternal instinct and the experience of caring for children . It argues that the role of the expert in relation to motherhood and child - care has further bur- dened women by charging them with the responsibility for ensuring ...
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... role and the PND discourses . It argues that traditional psychology , which takes the ' experimenters ' and their wishes out of the research equation , is misguided . Effective and convincing science is more complex - counting the re ...
... role and the PND discourses . It argues that traditional psychology , which takes the ' experimenters ' and their wishes out of the research equation , is misguided . Effective and convincing science is more complex - counting the re ...
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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Post-natal Depression: Psychology, Science, and the Transition to Motherhood Paula Nicolson Aucun aperçu disponible - 1998 |
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Angela Ann Oakley anxiety argued atypical depression baby becoming a mother behaviour believe biography biological biological reproduction birth breast-feeding Chapter child child-care clinical clinical depression clinicians consciousness context cope delivery despite develop discourse early motherhood emotional Esther Rantzen expected explain feel Felicity felt female feminine feminist focus following childbirth gender Gwen health visitor Hilary hormones hospital husband identified identity individual infant Interview Isobel Jane Jerri knowledge knowledge-claims labour loss marriage married maternal instinct maternity blues means Melanie midwives myth nappy Natasha Nicolson normal Oakley pain particularly patriarchal PAULA Penelope post-natal depression post-natal period potentially pregnancy problems psychological qualitative research reflexivity relation relationship respondents role Sarah scientists sense Sharon Shirley social status stress subjective Sylvia talk things traditional transition to motherhood understanding Ussher Wendy woman women women's experience women's lives worried