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Postpartum Depression: Ambivalence as a Risk Factor by Diana Lynn Barnes, PsyD., MFT Ambivalence about the maternal role is one of the presenting psychological risk factors in the onset of a postpartum depression. As clinicians working with women and their families around issues of pregnancy and birth, it is of critical importance that we are… Read More

A Closer Look: Understanding Mood Disorders by Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D, MFT “My baby had been crying for an hour. I felt nauseous. I had a 4-year-old in the next room, a screaming baby, and I felt myself unraveling away from my backbone. I started to shake. The quivering came from the deepest part of… Read More

Perinatal Depression and Anxiety By: Diana Lynn Barnes, Psy.D., LMFT There is no more profound transition in the life of a woman than her passage into motherhood. It touches us at so many different levels – physiologically, emotionally, psychologically and even spiritually. With motherhood comes a pronounced shift in our internal sense of us in… Read More