Post-Natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

by Paula Nicolson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415163633
• ISBN13: 9780415163637
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"