[Postpartum borderline depressive states in women]

The study aimed at determination of the structure of postpartum depressions in mothers and specification of the influence of some social and personality factors on their development. Nineteen mothers with borderline depression presented 3 types of depressive disorders: "maternity blues" syndrome, anxiety and agitated depression. All the women were exposed to special psychotherapeutic intervention. The differences were found between the study and control groups by social indices. The patients of the former one were featured by higher frequencies of first delivery and unregistered marriages, and their care-taking behavior bore formal character when mother fulfilled punctually all medical recommendations ignoring individual child's needs. Being evaluated according to A. Fogel et al, the types of mother-child interactions were determined as follows: reciprocal (symmetrical)--6 cases; unipolar (asymmetrical)--6 (maternal--3 and children--3); formal--6; disharmonic (uncoordinated)--1. The authors conclude that family aspect of psychotherapeutic effect is extremely important for the treatment of patients with postpartum borderline depressions.