Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence
Volume 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 31-35

Ways to support the birth of a migrant mother's child in French maternity: A rebuilding period between medical and psychiatric emergencies [Comment soutenir l'arrivée au monde d'un enfant de mère migrante dans une maternité française : Entre urgence somatique et urgence psychiatrique, le temps de la reconstruction...] (Article)

Perrin A.-S.* , Drain E. , Sarot A. , Moro M.-R.
  • a Université de Rouen, CHU Charles-Nicolle, 1, rue de Germont, Rouen cedex, 76031, France
  • b Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, 93000, France
  • c Inserm U1178, équipe Métisco du centre Babel, Maison de Solenn, hôpital Cochin, Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, 75014, France
  • d Maison de Solenn, centre Babel, Hôpital Cochin, Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, 75014, France

Abstract

Giving birth in a foreign land can be particularly difficult. The language barrier, medical techniques sometimes opposed to traditional customs, different representations of illness and solitude represent some of the vulnerability factors in young immigrant mothers. This article presents the clinical situation of a dyad under observation in the maternity ward by the pedopsychiatry team. Emphasis is put on the difficult encounter between perinatal psychiatry and culturally encoded postpartum depression. A clinical and therapeutic orientation is discussed. Acquiring more perspective while sharing the experience can lead to a rich clinical and human encounter at the same time. © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS.

Author Keywords

Perinatal motherhood Migration Postpartum mental disorder

Index Keywords

puerperal depression mental health service migrant Article France human mother maternity ward migration
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84957843160&doi=10.1016%2fj.neurenf.2015.11.004&partnerID=40&md5=10d8c32c63ca787972db31c691384574
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurenf.2015.11.004
ISSN: 02229617
Original Language: French