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Motherhood and Childlessness in Monozygous Twins

Part. 1 Early Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. Kaij  and
A. Malmquist
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Gross somatic illnesses and psychotic reactions associated with pregnancy, parturition and the puerperium are well known, but it is only in recent years that attention has been paid in any systematic way to milder neurotic reactions post partum. During the last decade reports have appeared from several centres on woman's reactions to pregnancy, studied from various viewpoints. As regards psychological reactions it is obvious that the modern Western woman has to a considerable extent an ambivalent attitude to maternity. It is therefore hardly surprising if this attitude, together with the sometimes pronounced somatic strain of pregnancy, results in a high frequency of emotional disturbances during and after pregnancy.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 542 , January 1971 , pp. 11 - 21
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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