| Description |
1 online resource : 29 illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Qualities of Postpartum Psychiatric Illness -- Introduction -- 1. Patterns of Postpartum Illness -- 2. The Issue of Unique Qualities -- 3. The Problem off Terminology -- 4. Cries for Help -- Part II. Recognition, Treatment, and Support -- Introduction -- 5. Prediction, Recognition, and Prevention -- 6. Recent Clinical Management Experience -- 7. Maternity Blues: A Model for Biological Research -- 8. The Mother and Baby Unit: An Important Approach 102 to Treatment -- 9. The Integrated Care of Hospitalized Women with Postpartum Psychiatric Illness -- 10. The Provision of Services for Postpartum Mental Illness in the United Kingdom -- 11. Rituals and Support: An Anthropological View of Postpartum Depression -- Part III: The Organic Matrix -- Introduction -- 12. Endocrinology of the Postpartum Period -- 13. The Hypothalamic-Pituitary- Adrenal Axis and Mood Disorders Related to Pregnancy -- 14. Endocrine Function and Hormonal Treatment of Postpartum Psychosis -- 15. Psychiatric Manifestations in Patients with Postpartum Hypopituitarism -- 16. Reproductive-Related Depressions in Women: Phenomena of Hormonal Kindling? -- 17. Prophylactic Measures -- Part IV: Unfinished Business -- Introduction -- 18. Toward the Diagnosis of Postpartum Psychotic Depression -- 19. Major Postpartum Depression -- 20. Infanticide and the Law in England and Wales -- 21. Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide, and Criminal Justice -- 22. Postpartum Disorders and the Law -- 23. Medical Insurance Litigation Problems of Postpartum Patients -- 24. Husband Support: A Neglected Aspect of Postpartum Psychiatric Illness -- 25. Information and Its Applications -- Appendix: The Words off Marcé -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter |
| Summary |
Clues which point toward the etiology of postpartum psychiatric illness and its appropriate treatment are spread over four continents and 150 years of history. James Alexander Hamilton and Patricia Neel Harberger decided that it was time to assemble the bits and pieces of information. Postpartum Psychiatric Illness: A Picture Puzzle is an exceptional work that presents a wealth of research and treatment considerations in this neglected field |
| Notes |
In English |
|
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
| Subject |
Postpartum psychiatric disorders.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
|
|
Postpartum psychiatric disorders
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Hamilton, James Alexander
|
|
Harberger, Patricia Neel
|
| ISBN |
9781512802085 |
|
1512802085 |
|
