Are postpartum depressions a mother-infant relationship disorder?
✍ Scribed by Bertrand Cramer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 969 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
The study of postpartum depressions is particularly important when one studies pathogenic influences on child development, because they occur-with a rather high incidence-at the onset of the attachment process. Although the mediating factors responsible for child effects of depression were classically seen as following a deficit model, we suggest that active processes of meaning attribution and of attendant interactive patterns play an important role both in the etiology of depression and in the mediating effects on the child. We use epidemiological data, the clinical description of a typical case of postpartum depression, and some results of a larger study of outcomes in mother-infant psychotherapy to validate our main hypothesis: Many postpartum depressions are best understood as a relational disturbance. The many psychological tasks imposed by the baby induce a disorder affecting parenting and mother-baby exchanges, while not necessarily invading all sectors of the parents' psychological functioning. The main clinical and research evidence for this hypothesis is that maternal depression is often lifted-surprisingly rapidlywhen psychotherapy is aimed at the mother-infant relationship. RESUME: L'Ctude des depressions postpartum est particulitrement importante quand on Ctudie les influences pathogkniques sur le dkveloppement du nourrisson, parce qu'elles se produisentavec une incidence plutBt Bevke-au debut du processus d'attachement. Alors que les facteurs mkdiateurs responsables des effets de depression sur l'enfant ont etC classiquement considkres comme suivant un modtle de deficit, nous suggerons que les processus actifs d'attribution de signification et de patterns interactifs concomitants jouent un rBle important a la fois dans I'Ctiologie de la depression et dans les effets midiateurs sur l'enfant. Nous utilisons des donntes epidkmiologiques, la description clinique d'un cas typique de depression postpartum, et certains rtsultats d'une etude plus grande des rtsultats dans la psychothkrapie mtre-nourrisson, tout ceci pour valider notre principale hypothtse: de nombreuses depressions post-partum sont mieux comprises en tant que trouble relationnel. Les nombreuses tlches psychologiques imposees par le btbt dklenchent un trouble affectant le parentage et les echanges mtre-bebt, tout en n'envahissant pas nkessairement tous les secteurs du fonctionnement psychologique des parents. La principale preuve clinique pour cette hypothtse est que la depression maternelle disparait souventktonnamment rapidementquand une psychothtrapie vise la relation mtre-nourrisson. RESUMEN: El estudio de las depresiones posteriores a1 parto es particularmente importante cuando se estudian las influencias patogenas en el desarrollo del niiio, porque ellas ocurren-con una alta incidencia, mas bien-al comienzo del proceso de union afectiva. Mientras que clasicamente se ha visto a 10s factores de mediacion responsables por 10s efectos de la depresion en el niiio como seguidores de un modelo deficitario, sugerimos que 10s procesos activos de atribucion de significado, y 10s consiguientes patrones interactivos, juegan un papel importante tanto en la etiopatogenia de la depresion etiologica como en 10s efectos mediadores en el niiio. Usamos information epidemiologica, la description clinica de un caso tipico de depresidn posterior a1 parto, asi como 10s resultados de un largo estudio de deseiilaces en la sicoterapia materno-infantil para validar nuestra principal hipbtesis: muchas depresiones posteriores a1 parto son entendidas mejor como una perturbacion de la relacion. Las muchas tareas sicologicas impuestas por el infante inducen hacia una ruptura, afectando la maternidad y 10s intercambios entre la madre su niiio;
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