Introduction
Midwifery is a medical practice that involves assisting with the birth of a child and further care for the expectant mother. Midwives provide care and moral support to the expectant mother before childbirth, assist in the process of childbirth, and provide assistance in the postpartum period. Modern midwives provide gynecological care and can also perform diagnostic tests (Baston, 2020). Midwives have been popular at all times, as the presence of men at childbirth was not approved. Midwives helped people who could not afford to pay for a stay at the clinic. During the postpartum period, midwives often help the mother at home to care for the baby, breastfeed, make the right diet, and provide emotional support. Usually, care is provided at home to ensure the most comfortable atmosphere for mother and child. Midwives’ psychological support is an essential component of rehabilitation in the postpartum period.
The Background
During colonial times, Native American groups often included midwives. English midwives were given preference when sent to the New World.
Midwives were often considered incompetent until the nineteenth century, leading to a significant decline in the number of women in practice.
Doctors were better educated, which made them much more popular than midwives. Existing superstitions regarding the involvement of midwives in witchcraft practices have significantly reduced their reputation. In the future, their professional qualities were also belittled due to the ban on home births that appeared. Midwifery as a separate professional field began to take shape in the twentieth century. Professional midwives now had a formal medical education and became full medical community members.
The challenges the characters face in overcoming problems in wellness
Anne is a patient of Dr. Ruth Seifert at Hackney Hospital in London. After five years of comparative stability, she is returned to the hospital, complaining that another person is infiltrating her thoughts. Anne talks about how someone invades her thoughts and communicates instead of her with others while talking to her and someone else. In addition, the patient expresses paranoid ideas; it seems to her that someone can follow her using the radio. The doctors are convinced that the patient suffers from a severe form of schizophrenia.
Since 1900, mental disorders have been divided into schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorder (Miller, 2013).
The problem with the film’s characters is that there is an ever-growing list of symptoms of schizophrenia that makes diagnosis challenging. Diagnosis is made difficult by the patient’s lack of connection with the real world. Even though the woman is not aggressive, she still makes contact with the doctor with difficulty. The advantages of this situation are revealed in the historical background of the disease: most recently, the medical community recognized schizophrenia as a serious illness.
Critically analyzing wellness
The series presents a critical analysis of schizophrenia to further provide the patient with competent therapy. The series has a historical background and presents several contemporary concepts. Equanimity and a critical approach to the patient in psychiatry is the gentlest way of interaction. Only a comprehensive study of the problem can help draw up an adequate plan for treatment and communication with a patient in an unstable moral state. The film’s value in the further diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia lies in raising the profile and awareness of the disease. The presented historical concepts indicate that the study of this disease in a psychiatric vein has begun recently and requires significant attention from the medical community. In addition, the film makes a significant contribution to the study of such a phenomenon as psychosis. R.D. Laing insisted that the major psychoses were rooted in the family or other lived experiences rather than as symptoms of an underlying disorder (Miller, 2013). Thus, the concept adds information to the discourse on the causes and effects of mental illness.
References
Baston, H. (2020). Midwifery: The Basics. Taylor & Francis.
Miller, J., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), & Films Media Group. (2013). In two minds: Is mental illness really an illness?-Madness