Depressione Perinatale e Relazioni Affettive

摘要

Maternity represents a period of intense vulnerability because of the deep reorganization of woman's innerexternal reality; during this period affective disorders can arise. The objective of this study is to assess Perinatal Depression prevalence, to investigate both psycho-social and personality risk factors and attachment models, with the purpose to start a primary and secondary prevention intervention. For this aim a service dedicated to maternity's protection and parenthood abilities support was created. Depressive manifestations observed in our sample seem to be referred to personalities characterized by little identity integration and insecure or unresolved attachment patterns. Therefore, elaborations about intervening relation between personality characteristics and attachment models appear useful to plan prevention interventions focused on the change of representational and interactive models.