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Puerperal Psychoses: A Long Term Study 1927—1961

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Colin Protheroe
Colin Protheroe*
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St. Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, 3
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There exists a vast literature on the puerperal psychoses. Most of it is incomplete in that rarely is any definition of the “puerperal period” made; frequently there is no attempt to differentiate between the various clinical syndromes seen when aetiology is considered, and little consideration is given to the extent of constitutional predisposition to psychiatric illness in the probands.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 518 , January 1969 , pp. 9 - 30
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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