Recurrent Post-Partum Psychosis
- 31 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 142 (6) , 618-620
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.142.6.618
Abstract
Two women who both experienced a psychotic illness after each of three consecutive pregnancies are described. Subjects who are at high risk for post-partum psychotic breakdown offer an almost unique opportunity for prospective tests of hypotheses about the aetiology of severe mental illness.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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