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A Study of the Sexual Life in Psychoses Associated with Childbirth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

E. W. Anderson
E. W. Anderson*
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Maudsley Hospital
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It is now universally recognized that there is nothing specific in the form of psychoses associated with childbearing. There is, however, still a tendency to attribute to the puerperium itself or to pregnancy or lactation a significance quite out of proportion to that of other precipitating factors; thus such terms as “puerperal depression”, or “puerperal schizophrenia” are still in use, as if the precipitating factor were something special as opposed to the innumerable other causes assigned to the appearance of an attack of mental disorder. Nor is this surprising when one reflects on the enormous significance of the sexual life. One is quite willing on a priori grounds to grant to the puerperium this all-important rôle.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 79 , Issue 324 , January 1933 , pp. 137 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1933 

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