Postpartum Depression Rx Links Mother's Day and Children's Mental Health Month
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 6:58PM
Postpartum Depression Rx Links Mother's Day and Children's Mental Health Month
By Dr. Claudia Gold - Child In Mind, Boston.com, 05/09/12
On Sunday we celebrate mothers- bringing breakfast in bed, going out to dinner, buying flowers. In my personal experience, one of the greatest pleasures of Mother's Day, in addition to having the "day off," is to take joy in my beautiful children as they grow and develop and make their way out into the world.
D. W. Winnicott, pediatrician turned psychoanalyst, famously said, "There is no such thing as a baby." What he meant is that one cannot fully understand a baby without considering the relationship with the mother. Equally true is that without a child, there is no such thing as a mother. In order to understand a mother's experience, it important to consider the child and what he or she brings to the relationship.
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