期刊
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 22-40出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1525/MAQ.2007.21.1.22
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parental investment; postpartum mood; evolutionary psychology; psychopathology; depression
Psychiatry faces an internal contradiction in that it regards mild sadness and low mood as normal emotions, yet when these emotions are directed toward anew infant, it regards them as abnormal. We apply parental investment theory, a widely used framework from evolutionary biology, to maternal perinatal emotions, arguing that negative emotions directed toward a new infant could serve an important evolved function. If so, then under some definitions of psychiatric disorder, these emotions are not disorders. We investigate the applicability of parental investment theory to maternal postpartum emotions among Shuar mothers. Shuar mothers' conceptions of perinatal sadness closely match predictions of parental investment theory.
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