Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders

The literature on postpartum psychiatric disorders (PPD) is reviewed with particular reference to recent advances in the field. Despite the prevailing tendency to consider PPD as a manifestation of other pre-existing psychiatric disorders (i.e. affective, schizophreniform, organic, neurotic, etc.) a growing number of studies point to the uniqueness and specificity of postpartum symptomatology. Theories of etiology, psychosocial as well as …