From the perspective of the medical model, post-natal depression is a diagnosable disease. What other approaches are there to understanding post-natal depression?

Post-natal depression when viewed from the point of view of the medical model is a disease. When a medical professional listens to the symptoms, he or she can compare them to, … recognised guidelines … and make a diagnosis accordingly. Many medical professional use the medical model as a foundation to their work. Two aspects of this model are a quest to conquer and cure disease and focused on the disease not the whole person. When looked at in relation to post-natal depression, the model appears to focus on the symptoms and the physical side of the illness and treating the illness not the person as a whole….(short extract)