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Puerperal Psychosis

Post-Abortion Psychosis and Its Implications for the Aetiology of Puerperal Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Colin Brewer
Colin Brewer*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
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The aetiology of puerperal psychosis remains controversial. Because of the obvious psychological and emotional implications of childbirth, there is a school of thought which regards it as largely psychogenic and therefore relies heavily on a psychotherapeutic approach.

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Annual Meeting 1977: Abstracts of Papers
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , November 1977 , pp. 6
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