Our understanding of mothers' experience of perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (POCD) is limited. While symptoms of POCD have been documented in the literature, the wider lived experience of people with this condition has received less attention. This study used a psychoanalytically informed research method to explore mothers' experiences of POCD. Five participants each engaged in three unstructured interviews, where participants were given time and space to discuss their personal experience. Three major themes emerged from the interviews conducted: a difficult road to motherhood, which related to the challenges participants faced becoming mothers; protector/aggressor, which described the tension between participants' intrusive thoughts and their desire to protect their baby; and mothers' loss, which described participants' sense of sadness having experienced POCD at this special time in their lives. These themes are discussed in relation to their significance for our thinking about mothers' experience of POCD during pregnancy, postnatally and beyond.

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美女与野兽：一项以精神分析为导向的定性研究，详细描述了母亲对围产期强迫症的体验

我们对母亲围产期强迫症 (POCD) 经历的了解有限。虽然文献中记录了 POCD 的症状，但患有这种疾病的人更广泛的生活经历却很少受到关注。本研究采用精神分析知情的研究方法来探索母亲的 POCD 经历。五名参与者每人进行了三次非结构化访谈，参与者有时间和空间来讨论他们的个人经历。从所进行的采访中出现了三个主要主题：一条艰难的母亲之路，这与参与者成为母亲所面临的挑战有关；保护者/攻击者，描述了参与者的侵入性想法和他们保护婴儿的愿望之间的紧张关系；和母亲的损失，描述了参与者的 在他们生命中的这个特殊时期经历了 POCD 的悲伤感。这些主题的讨论与它们对我们思考母亲在怀孕期间、产后及以后的 POCD 经历的意义有关。