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Puerperal disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ian Brockington
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Childbearing, from the standpoint of psychological medicine, is the most complex event in human experience (Brockington, 1996). Pregnancy and childbirth involve major biological, social and emotional transitions and expose the mother to a range of psychological and medical complications. There are about 20 psychiatric disorders occurring in the post-partum period (see Table 1).

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 4 , Issue 6 , November 1998, pp. 312 - 319
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998 

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