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KMID : 0377819890090070805
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Diagnosis and Treatment
1989 Volume.9 No. 7 p.805 ~ p.809
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ACUTE PSYCHOTIC EPISODE ASSOCIATED WITH PREGNANCY: ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
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Pregnancy-related mental disorders share common biological and psychological predispositions. The process of pregnancy and delivery is a major tur-ring point in terms of psychological development and maturation of a woman.
Here the authors document a case of a 26-year-old pregnant woman who experienced a brief period of psychotic breakdown. She has felt her anxiety mounting since she first recognized the quickening, and apprehended that she might lose her "fetus" or lose herself. This case describes various fantasies, dreams, perceptual disturbances, conscious thoughts and psychotic behaviors through which the patient revisited her old conflicts. And it shoves how she has strived against these problems to be a mother.
Then the authors review articles on the psychological processes of pregnancy and motherhood. Pregnancy, in psychological senses, is a period of psychosomatic condition. during which the woman reexperiences and reorganizes 1) her relationship to her mother 2) relationship to opposit sex 3) relationship to herself 4) relationship to objects in general, 5) her own body concept and 6) her own infantile development and modes of libidinal cat- hexis, finally to establish a new relationship to her own baby.
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