Motherhood & Depression

By Madison Collins

The birth of a child is the realization of an ancestral archetype, the defeat of the anguishes of sterility and inadequacy that corrode secretly being female participation in the maternal power. Paradoxically, the feeling of triumph, very often, it is tinged with a feeling of disorientation and loss. Pregnancy and motherhood require changes not only in the outside world, but also in the inner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ALVIS International Editions
• Release date: Oct 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301034246

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Motherhood & Depression

Madison Collins

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CONTENTS

Premise

To Be a Mother

Pregnancy and Depression

Post Partum Depressive Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Prevention and Cure

References

PREMISE

The journey to motherhood is a central crossroads in the life of a woman. The two main tasks of the woman, as a mother, are to achieve harmonious unity with his son before, and to melt harmoniously this unit later. In other words, the task of a good mother is to be able to constitute a unit with the newborn, with particular characteristics, such as to give it the appearance of a real symbiosis. A symbiosis destined to be resolved in the progressive dismantling of the structures that were built up to that point for the sake of the mother-child pair. Biological separation, attested by birth, leaving an empty space in the experience of the woman who is so opposite the large gap that separates pregnancy and motherhood. While during the pregnancy the mother had to do with content from indistinct and uncertain boundaries, after giving birth, she is faced with what until then had held. The post-partum period is in this sense the real critical period in the transition from pregnancy to motherhood that can lead to different forms of depressive disorder.

TO BE A MOTHER

The birth of a child is the realization of an ancestral archetype, the defeat of the anguishes of sterility and inadequacy that corrode secretly being female participation in the maternal power. Instead, paradoxically, the feeling of triumph, very often, it is tinged with a feeling of disorientation and loss. Pregnancy and motherhood require changes not only in the outside world, but also in the inner world of women: in this sense, as well as physical labor is also psychological. Pregnancy is a time of crisis, confusion and profound transformation: the reorganization of the interior reflects a similar process of readjustment of the sense of identity that, after a period of confusion, it may find its new equilibrium. The crisis of motherhood implies a vast reorganization of the personality and can lead as well as the hiring of proper maternal function, on the other hand can be a time when there is a serious failure neurotic or psychotic. The birth of a child breaks