Sides of a coin : postpartum depression and ritual confinement anxieties
Sides of a coin : postpartum depression and ritual confinement anxieties

Summary/Abstract: The article uses ethnographic data from Romania and other countries to add to the debate on postpartum depression. It compares medical data with traditional practices and beliefs in order to suggest that both influence women’s acknowledgement of the change. Although the instruments for knowledge transfer differ, the result is similar because of the human reaction to the event of childbirth. New mothers confront themselves with distress wheth-er they are part of traditional communities or not. Postpartum depression and confine-ment anguish are thus two perspectives on the same state of mind.

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