Alexandra Sacks: A new way to think about the transition to motherhood
알렉산드라 삭스: '어머니로의 변화기' 에 대한 새로운 시각
Alexandra Sacks, M.D. is widely recognized as the leading clinical expert on matrescence: the developmental transition into motherhood. Full bio
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when you felt hormonal and moody?
in strange places and very fast,
grown-up in this new way.
to a woman when she's having a baby.
for teenagers to feel all over the place,
pregnancy in the same way?
이야기해보면 어떨까요?
the developmental arc of adolescence,
to describe the transition to motherhood.
문헌은 찾아볼 수가 없어요.
with pregnant and postpartum women,
working in this field,
I'm not enjoying this.
of that diagnosis,
that she's not clinically depressed,
확신할 수 있었습니다.
like this," she insists.
라고 주장합니다.
expect it to feel like?"
"좋아요. 그럼 어떤 감정을 느끼리라 예상하셨나요?"
would make feel whole and happy.
"저는 어머니가 되면 모든게 행복하리라 생각했어요.
would naturally tell me what to do.
to put the baby first."
to motherhood feels like.
like this from hundreds of women,
많은 여성들에게 받았고,
that they weren't sick
to normalize this transition,
the same thing as disease.
the psychology of motherhood.
in the medical textbooks,
write about disease.
but in an out-of-print essay
to frame this conversation:
sounds like "adolescence."
비슷하게 들리는건 우연이 아닙니다.
and hormone shifting
in how a person feels emotionally
matrescence is not a disease,
in the medical vocabulary,
educating people about it,
with a more serious condition
the anthropology literature
about matrescence with my patients
the "push and pull."
are uniquely dependent.
our babies can't walk,
with this hormone called oxytocin.
give birth to the baby.
zoom in, pulling her attention in,
at the center of her world.
her mind is pushing away,
all these other parts to her identity --
다른 부분들이 있는걸 기억하기 때문입니다.
tug-of-war of matrescence.
the women calling me were feeling.
progression of matrescence,
자연스러운 단계라는걸 알았다면
hard to live inside this push and pull,
'밀고 당기기' 에 어려움을 겪는다는걸 알았다면,
these circumstances,
and nothing to be ashamed of,
rates of postpartum depression.
our culture understands
their own transition
protecting your relationship.
a separate part of your identity,
for your child to develop their own.
생성될 수 있도록 도와야합니다.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alexandra Sacks - Reproductive psychiatristAlexandra Sacks, M.D. is widely recognized as the leading clinical expert on matrescence: the developmental transition into motherhood.
Why you should listen
Alexandra Sacks has spent the last decade of her career helping women navigate their emotional lives as a reproductive psychiatrist. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and her work has been featured in TIME, NPR and throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Board-certified in psychiatry with specialty fellowship training in women's mental health via New York Presbyterian Cornell and Columbia, Sacks helms a private practice in New York City and serves on the advisory boards for the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. In April 2019, Dr. Sacks will publish her first co-authored book, What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood (Simon and Schuster).
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