Alexandra Sacks: A new way to think about the transition to motherhood
Alexandra Sacks: Uma nova forma de pensar a transição para a maternidade
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?
se sentiam temperamentais?
in strange places and very fast,
em sítios estranhos e muito depressa
grown-up in this new way.
que crescessem desta nova forma.
to a woman when she's having a baby.
numa mulher quando ela engravida.
for teenagers to feel all over the place,
que as adolescentes se sintam confusas,
pregnancy in the same way?
sobre a gravidez da mesma forma?
the developmental arc of adolescence,
de desenvolvimento da adolescência
to describe the transition to motherhood.
descreva a transição para a maternidade.
with pregnant and postpartum women,
e com mulheres em pós-parto,
working in this field,
trabalhado nesta área,
I'm not enjoying this.
Não estou a gostar disto.
of that diagnosis,
desse diagnóstico,
that she's not clinically depressed,
clinicamente deprimida,
like this," she insists.
expect it to feel like?"
"Ok. O que é que esperava sentir?"
would make feel whole and happy.
me ia fazer sentir completa e feliz.
would naturally tell me what to do.
me iriam dizer o que fazer naturalmente.
to put the baby first."
pôr o bebé em primeiro lugar".
to motherhood feels like.
para a maternidade.
like this from hundreds of women,
como esta de centenas de mulheres,
that they weren't sick
to normalize this transition,
de normalizar esta transição,
the same thing as disease.
nem sempre é o mesmo que estar doente.
the psychology of motherhood.
sobre a psicologia da maternidade.
in the medical textbooks,
nos livros de medicina,
write about disease.
sobretudo sobre doenças.
but in an out-of-print essay
to frame this conversation:
de enquadrar esta conversa:
sounds like "adolescence."
seja parecido com "adolescência".
and hormone shifting
do corpo e a alteração nas hormonas
in how a person feels emotionally
uma pessoa se sente emocionalmente
matrescence is not a disease,
a matrescência não é uma doença,
in the medical vocabulary,
educating people about it,
as pessoas sobre isto,
with a more serious condition
com uma situação mais grave
the anthropology literature
na literatura antropológica
about matrescence with my patients
com as minhas pacientes,
the "push and pull."
chamado "puxa e empurra".
are uniquely dependent.
são especialmente dependentes.
our babies can't walk,
os nossos bebés não andam,
with this hormone called oxytocin.
com uma hormona chamada ocitocina.
give birth to the baby.
não tenha dado à luz o bebé.
zoom in, pulling her attention in,
a concentrar-se, a atrair a sua atenção,
at the center of her world.
o centro do seu mundo.
her mind is pushing away,
está a empurrá-la para longe,
all these other parts to her identity --
as outras partes da sua identidade
tug-of-war of matrescence.
emocional da matrescência.
the women calling me were feeling.
que me ligavam estavam a sentir.
que estavam doentes.
progression of matrescence,
o processo natural da matrescência,
hard to live inside this push and pull,
com este puxa e empurra,
these circumstances,
and nothing to be ashamed of,
nenhum motivo de vergonha,
rates of postpartum depression.
as taxas de depressão pós-parto.
our culture understands
como a nossa cultura percebe
de conversar entre elas,
a vossa matrescência
their own transition
a sua própria transição
protecting your relationship.
proteger a vossa relação.
a separate part of your identity,
da vossa identidade,
for your child to develop their own.
para o vosso filho desenvolver a sua.
nasce uma mãe também,
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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