Book Review – Walker Karraa

Book Review : In Walker Karraa’s Transformed by Postpartum Depression: Women’s Stories of Trauma and Growth the impact of postpartum depression and its pervasiveness in the lives of women in the United States and around the world is discussed. Karraa discusses the background, methodology, findings, and interpretations of the qualitative research she conducted on 20 women who had given birth and struggled with postpartum depression based in the United States. The real-life postpartum experiences recounted in this book offer unique insight that supplements the traditional, quantitative research data that has been collected on postpartum depression most of which has been focused on disease-based suffering rather than capturing the lived emotional experiences that surround the transformation from despair and suffering to reflection and perspective.