008: Symptomatic and competent: Exploring the dark, joyful, exhilarating, and cruel aspects of motherhood with Karen Kleiman, MSW

Normalizing maternal ambivalence—and holding two truths—with a trailblazing voice in perinatal mental health

When I first started reporting about maternal mental health for my various magazine clients about five years ago, I learned something fairly quickly: Eventually, if you talked to enough providers, researchers, or experts in the field, someone somewhere would tell you that you should really talk to Karen Kleiman, M.S.W., founder of The Postpartum Stress …