Abstract
This article is the result of a qualitative study, based on Qualitative Epistemology, aimed to promote reflections on postnatal depression, emphasizing the psychological and social factors involved. This is a case study about one of the participants of a support group for mothers with postnatal depression, developed at the Universidade Catolica de Brasilia. The aim of this group was to provide a space of emotional listening and support, and it was a field for collecting data. The technique of completing phrases, projective techniques, and accounts presented in individual and group sessions were used for the survey and construction of indicators about the experience of maternity and postnatal depression. The study of this case gave us elements to understand how an ideal of maternity presented as natural and instinctive can be harmful for women that try to obtain absolute satisfaction in their experience of maternity, configuring this ideal as one of the responsible elements for the installation and maintenance of postnatal depression.
Highlights
This article is the result of a qualitative study, based on Qualitative Epistemology, aimed to promote reflections on postnatal depression, emphasizing the psychological and social factors involved
Entendemos que desde a infância as meninas treinam o papel de boa mãe, segundo o qual a mulher deve ser capaz
Nossa hipótese é de que essas pressões culturais sob as quais as mulheres invariavelmente exercem a maternidade, associadas ao sentimento de incapacidade em adequar-se a uma visão romanceada desse estado, acabam por deixá-las ansiosas e culpadas, suscitando dessa maneira conflitos que predisporiam a depressão pós-parto
Summary
A dificuldade em enfrentar tais sentimentos tão complexos e contraditórios próprios da ambivalência materna pode redundar em uma eterna culpa, que implica em muito sofrimento, mas com a qual as mães se habituam a viver. Nossa hipótese é de que essas pressões culturais sob as quais as mulheres invariavelmente exercem a maternidade, associadas ao sentimento de incapacidade em adequar-se a uma visão romanceada desse estado, acabam por deixá-las ansiosas e culpadas, suscitando dessa maneira conflitos que predisporiam a depressão pós-parto. Entendemos que temas como a feminilidade, as transformações culturais no papel da mulher, o mito de mãe perfeita e a ambivalência do papel de mãe, guardam estreita relação com o que chamaremos possíveis causas da depressão após o parto
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