Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Tehran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Allameh University
Abstract
Silent maternal melodies; A phenomenological narrative of infant abandonment in addicted women
Motherhood as a specific, objective, familiar, distinctive, universal, and sacred symbol has influenced various aspects of women's lives, and their gender identity is strengthened by playing this role. The aim of the present study is to provide the audience with a phenomenological understanding of the maternal experience among women with substance abuse. This study uses a qualitative method and is of the hermeneutic phenomenological type. The themes were obtained through semi-structured interviews with ten mothers with substance abuse who abandoned their infants at Mahdieh Hospital in Tehran in three consecutive months. The sample units in this study were conducted using purposive and accessible sampling and thematic analysis using the Dickelman method. Finally, using thematic analysis based on the Dickelman method, five main themes were extracted to express the lived experiences of mothers with substance abuse. The main themes in this study are; "Emotional freezing in the maternal experience", "identity dissociation", "service provider bias and structural stigma in the care of pregnant women who abuse drugs", "feeling of lack of agency in choice" and "experiencing emotional contradictions between dependence and separation". The results of the study showed that the construction of addicted mothers' own motherhoods has led to a renewal of concepts within motherhood for them and others.
Keywords; Motherhood, mothers with substance abuse, phenomenology, lived experience,
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