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Post-Natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood (Women and Psychology) by Paula Nicholson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Post-Natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood (Women and Psychology) about?
<p><b>Post-Natal Depression</b> 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.<br> <b>Post Natal Depression</b> makes an important contribution to the psychology of women and feminist research and will be of interst to psychologists, social scientists, nurses and doctors.</p> <p>Sets women's own accounts alongside expert evidence & argues that issues are social not bio. & norm. response to losses. </p>
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paula Nicholson
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203132500
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Medical, Social Science
Other editions & translations
- Post-Natal Depression : Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood (1998)
- Postnatal Depression : Facing the Paradox of Loss, Happiness and Motherhood (2001)
- Post-Natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood (Women and Psychology) (1998)
- Postnatal Depresstion - Facing the Paradox of Lost Happiness & Motherhood (2001)
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