Volume 32, Issue 1, 2023
DOI: 10.53555/03276716.2023.7009
The Lebenswelt (Lifeworld) Of The Mother-Woman With Post-Partum Depression (PPD)
Abstract
This qualitative phenomenological research aims to discuss the Lebenswelt of women with PPD.
Continuous individual interviews were conducted with seven women, starting from the question: From your experience, tell me what it is like to have PPD. In the analysis, which was carried out based on the phenomenological method, five categories emerged that deal with the mother-baby relationship, body, time and space lived, guilt, society and feelings of love, fear, anguish and death. Results indicate that the experience is difficult and associated with physical, psychological and social suffering; that posture and bodily rhythm are marked by isolation, slowness and stagnation and that there is a feeling of “dispotentialization” and guilt, which constitute a barrier in the relationship with the other.
Keywords
Postpartum depression; Phenomenology; Phenomenological psychopathology; Maternity.