Phenomenology of postpartum depression of Cecília under the point of view of Arthur Tatossian

Abstract

This case study aims to understand the experience of postpartum depression (PPD) from the theoretical point of view of Arthur Tatossian's phenomenological psychopathology. In a qualitative research, with a phenomenological focus, the collaborator was interviewed, in a total of six meetings, in which she was invited to talk about her experience of having postpartum depression. We aim at the vital character of depression, the depressivity, with a focus on the experience of being depressed. Based on Tatossian, we consider PPD as an accidental, reactionary or situational depression, as it is experienced after an event that comes to be experienced as disturbing: maternity. The Lebenswelt (lived world) was understood in postpartum depression from the interlacement with the world in its constituent categories of body, time, space and the relationship with the other, associated with the cultural world and meanings that cross each woman-mother affected by PPD.