FROM THE BABY-BLUES TO POSTPARTAL PSYCHOS IS

Citation
C. Guillaumont et al., FROM THE BABY-BLUES TO POSTPARTAL PSYCHOS IS, La Semaine des hopitaux de Paris, 69(29), 1993, pp. 873-878
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
ISSN journal
00371777
Volume
69
Issue
29
Year of publication
1993
Pages
873 - 878
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-1777(1993)69:29<873:FTBTPP>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
The classification of postpartum psychiatric disorders is currently un dergoing revision. It is hoped that in the newly developed system thes e disorders will be recognized as original clinical entities. However, beyond problems with definitions and methodologies lies the issue of relationships between the baby-blues, postpartal depression, and puerp eral psychosis. These conditions seem to form a continuum. No predicti ve psychological factors have been identified. The clinical presentati ons of postpartal psychiatric disorders are reviewed herein. Early dia gnosis seems essential because of the substantial impact of postpartal depression on the mother-infant relationship, even though the medium- term consequences remain unclear.