Kitzinger, Sheila.

Birth crisis / Sheila Kitzinger. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2006. - p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Birth shock -- Birth contrasts -- Institutional power in a high tech birth culture : how an anthropologist sees birth -- Managing the reproductive machine -- Sexual abuse and birth -- Nightmares, flashbacks, and panic attacks -- Pain -- Other ways of handling pain -- "If only I hadn't" -- The baby -- The partner -- Moving forward -- Pregnant again.

0415372658 (hbk) 0415372666 (pbk.)

2005034724


Childbirth--Psychological aspects.
Labor (Obstetrics)--Psychological aspects.
Delivery (Obstetrics)--Psychological aspects.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psychic trauma.
Mothers--Mental health.
Parturition--psychology.
Delivery, Obstetric--adverse effects.
Delivery, Obstetric--ethics.
Pregnancy Complications--psychology.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--etiology.

RG658 / .K566 2006

618.4

WQ 300 / K62b 2006