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Stress and Puerperal Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

I. F. Brockington ,
C. Martin ,
G. W. Brown ,
D. Goldberg  and
F. Margison
I. F. Brockington*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Birmingham University, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham B15 2TH
C. Martin
Affiliation:
Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change, Edinburgh
G. W. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Social Policy and Social Science, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA
D. Goldberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester M20 8LR
F. Margison
Affiliation:
Central Manchester Health Authority, Gaskell House, Manchester
*
∗ Correspondence
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Eighty-eight in-patients admitted to a psychiatric mother-and-baby unit and 80 randomly selected recently delivered women in the general population were interviewed using the LEDS. Only five of 33 patients (15%) with puerperal psychosis had provoking agents, which is less than the figure for women in the community (36%). Provoking agents were present in only 8 of 25 patients with post-natal depression, but they were present in seven of nine patients with pre-natal depression and eight of nine women in the community with pre-natal depression.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 331 - 334
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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