Birth Crisis

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-37266-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumatic stress after childbirth. In Birth Crisis Sheila Kitzinger explores the disempowerment and anxiety experienced by these women. Key topics discussed include:

- increasing intervention in pregnancy

- the shift in emphasis from relationships to technology in childbirth

- how family, friends and professional caregivers can reach out to traumatized mothers

- how women can work through stress to understand themselves more deeply and grow in emotional maturity

- how care and the medical system needs to be changed.

Birth Crisis draws on mothers' voices and real-life experiences to explore the suffering after childbirth which has, until now, been brushed under the carpet. It is a fascinating and useful resource for student and practising midwives, all health professionals, and women and their families who want to learn how to overcome a traumatic birth.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitzinger, Sheila

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Birth Contrasts 3. Pain 4. Institutional Power in a High-Tech Birth Culture 5. Sexual Abuse and Birth 6. Nightmares, Flash-Backs, Panic Attacks 7. 'If Only I Hadn't.' 8. The Baby 9. The Partner 10. Making Sense of the Birth Experience 11. The Next Pregnancy

Über Autor(innen)

Sheila Kitzinger