Treating Opioid Use Disorder in Peripartum Mothers: A Look at the Psychodynamics, Neurobiology, and Potential Role of Oxytocin
Autor: | Joanna E. Chambers, Danielle K. Patterson, C. Sue Carter, David Pollock |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Mothers Oxytocin Affect (psychology) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Peripartum Period Attachment theory medicine Humans Child education Psychodynamic psychotherapy education.field_of_study Infant Opioid use disorder General Medicine Opioid-Related Disorders Psychodynamics medicine.disease Object Attachment Mother-Child Relations 030227 psychiatry Female Psychotherapy Psychodynamic Psychology Neuroscience 030217 neurology & neurosurgery medicine.drug |
Zdroj: | Psychodynamic Psychiatry. 49:48-72 |
ISSN: | 2162-2590 |
Popis: | The peripartum period (pregnancy and postpartum) is a unique time filled with psychodynamic and biological changes that are critical in affecting the lives of mother and baby. Attachment, the biologically based emotional connection between a caregiver and infant, is critical to the development of the child. The early interactions in an infant's life shape their reward neuro-circuitry and the development of their internal working models and styles of attachment. Opioid use disorders in the mother affect the psychodynamics and neurobiology of attachment. There is significant overlap between the neurobiology of attachment and that of opioid use disorders. In this article, we hope to describe how opioid use disorders affect mother-infant attachment and how psychodynamic psychotherapy that is informed by attachment theory may be a potential treatment for mothers with opioid use disorders. Further, oxytocin plays a role in the attachment process and may function abnormally in mothers with opioid use disorders. As oxytocin affects attachment, administration of oxytocin during postpartum mother-infant interactions in the setting of psychotherapy may facilitate bonding and promote recovery from opioid use disorders in the peripartum population. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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