Psychiatric Disorders and Pregnancy provides a modern and fully up-to-date review of the clinical literature relative to clinical management in the field.

Contents

1. Introduction: mental illness and pregnancy
2. Screening in pregnancy for risk of serious postnatal illness
3. Effects of parental mental illness on children
4. Parenting: mentally ill mothers and baies
5. Infanticide and child abuse
6. Mood disorder during pregnancy: aetiology and management
7. Management of psychosis before, during and after pregnancy
8. Management of eating disorders in pregnancy and the puerperium
9. Management of personality disorders in pregnancy and the puerperium
10. Post-traumatic stress disorder and childbirth
11. Substance use disorders in pregnancy
12. Teratogenicity and psychotropic drug use during pregnancy
13. Breastfeeding and drug treatment
14. The place of psychological therapies in the perinatal period
15. Models of health care in the management of women with psychiatric disorders in pregnancy
16. Labour: effects of stress and psychological management at term

Index

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