Psychoses of Menstruation and Childbearing

List of contents

Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Introduction: 1. Data; 2. History; Part II. The Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy and the Puerperium: 3. Infective delirium; 4. Eclamptic and Donkin psychoses; 5. Wernicke-Korsakow psychosis; 6. Chorea psychosis; 7. Vascular disorders; 8. Other specific neuropsychiatric disorders; 9. Incidental organic psychoses; Part III. The Psychopathology of Parturition: 10. Introduction; 11. Parturient delirium; 12. Unconscious delivery; 13. Acts of desperation; 14. Other parturient psychoses; 15. Delirium and stupor immediately after the birth; Part IV. Non-Organic Psychoses of Childbearing: 16. The literature; 17. Symptoms; 18. Classification; 19. Clinical forms; 20. Episode onset; 21. The bipolar/cycloid group; 22. Management; 23. Risks; Part V. Menstrual Psychosis: 24. The catamenial process; 25. Medicine and menstruation; 26. Definition and classification; 27. Timing within the menstrual cycle; 28. Timing within the life cycle; 29. Links with the psychoses of childbearing; 30. Investigations; 31. Causes; 32. Management; Part VI. The Challenge and the Opportunity: 33. What is known; 34. Impediments to the growth of knowledge; 35. Research opportunities; Appendix: the Anne Roper interview; Index.

About the author

Ian Brockington is Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Brockington, Ian (University of Birmingham) Brockington, Brockington Ian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107113602
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11360-2
• No. of pages: 450
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, Psychiatry, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Gynaecology & obstetrics