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Psychoses Associated with Childbirth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

D. N. Parfitt
D. N. Parfitt*
Affiliation:
Warwick County Mental Hospital, Hatton
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Pregnancy, with the associated pain and danger of labour and the Puerperium, is an ordeal for any woman, more so perhaps to-day than it has ever been, because of the wide publicity given to the toll of puerperal infection and the need for ante-natal care. An experience so intimately connected with the love-life, and with social and economic difficulties also, is often a period of acute mental stress in perfectly healthy women. Still more is it a time of psychological tension in those constitutionally unstable and liable to mental breakdown, both because they are not able to withstand the strain of mental conflict, and because they are the more likely to meet with such emotional problems on account of their temperamental unbalance.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 80 , Issue 328 , January 1934 , pp. 43 - 57
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1934

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An Essay for which the Bronze Medal of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association was awarded, 1933.

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