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Postpartum psychosis: a family's perspective

Naacog'S Clinical Issues in Perinatal and Women'S Health Nursing
|January 1, 1990
PubMed

One couple's experience of a postpartum mental illness that led to the tragedy of infanticide is described. A case background is presented to highlight significant objective data relevant to a previous pregnancy. Individual recommendations are made to the health care profession on how to better intervene with families experiencing a postpartum psychiatric illness. Nursing implications are discussed.

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