This book aims to display the great variety of disorders which can occur during pregnancy and the post-partum period, which make childbearing the most complex psychological event in human experience. It provides a comprehensive summary of our present knowledge, set in a historical context, as a foundation for research. It sets out to show how distressed mothers can be helped in many ways and restored to mental health.
The desire for children; Pregnancy and mental health; A portfolio of postpartum disorders; Puerperal psychosis; Infant loss; The mother-infant relationship; Child abuse and neglect; Infanticide; Drugs, prescribed and abused; Postpartum mental illness and the family; Services;
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