Psychological features of corporal experience in women with postpartum mastitis

Abstract

It is shown that corporal experience in women with postpartum mastitis differs from corporal experience in women without postpartum pathology (total of 164 subjects). Women with postpartum mastitis have a more developed system of interaction with internal (especially negative) corporal sensations, a richer vocabulary for painful sensations and a higher level of its metaphorisation. A low level of differentiation, an introduction of new classification criteria for sensations due to additional motivation towards a child, a negative attitude to their own body including the breast and a change of sign of slightly negative sensations from negative to positive or neutral are also incident to women with postpartum mastitis.