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The Symptomatology of Puerperal Illnesses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

C. Dean  and
R. E. Kendell
C. Dean
Affiliation:
Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
R. E. Kendell
Affiliation:
Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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Summary

Women who had a psychiatric illness requiring hospital admission within 90 days of delivery were compared with a control group matched for age, Research Diagnostic Criteria diagnosis and year of admission. Those with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder differed significantly from non-puerperal controls in being more deluded or hallucinated, more labile and more disorientated. There was no difference between puerperal and control cases of major depressive or manic disorder with respect to treatment received, or responded to, or length of stay in hospital.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 2 , August 1981 , pp. 128 - 133
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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