Abstract

SILVA, Heloisa Cardoso da  and  DONELLI, Tagma Marina Schneider. Depression and maternity in the light of psychoanalysis: a systematic review of literature. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2016, vol.28, n.1, pp. 83-103. ISSN 0103-5665.

This article has performed a systematic review of the scientific national research about depression and maternity on the psychoanalytical perspective. The descriptors employed were post-partum depression OR maternal depression OR puerperal depression AND Psychoanalysis; including articles, dissertations or theses published between 2004 and 2014, available in full, from Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry or multidisciplinary fields. There were 37 papers, the majority being from Psychology. We could observe a scarcity of empirical studies and, among these, include the qualitative studies, such as case studies having as participants mothers, pairs: mother-baby, triad: father-mother, baby and pediatricians. The main results found were: the importance of the early detection of risk signs, the impact of depression in the interaction of mother-baby and in the child development, the multifactorial etiology of the disorder, the vulnerability of the familiar context and psycopathologies and some hypotheses on the psychodynamic aspects of depression. Finally, considering the psychodynamic functioning of maternity itself in the next two years after birth, it is defended the conceptualization of this disorder as maternal depression and the elaboration of a differentiated construct.

Keywords : post-partum depression; maternal depression; puerperal depression; Psychoanalysis; systematic review.

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