Post-Natal Depression

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 of losses.

Post Natal Depression makes an important contribution to the psychology of women and feminist research and will be of interst to psychologists, social scientists, nurses and doctors.