Post-Natal Depression

Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

By: Paula Nicolson

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Paperback | 18 June 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a "happy mother."

Up to 90% of new mothers experience some form of depression, but traditional medical accounts pathologize it. Arguing that many of the issues linked to post-natal depression are social rather than biological, Nicolson sets women's own accounts alongside expert evidence, and provides a radical critique of the traditional medical and social science explanations.

The book supplies a systematic feminist psychological analysis of women's experiences following childbirth and argues that, far from being an abnormal, undesirable, pathological condition, post- natal depression is a normal, healthy response to a series of losses.

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