Post-Natal Depression

<p><em>Post-Natal Depression</em> 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><em>Post Natal Depression</em> 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>