Research Catalog

Title

Depression after childbirth : how to recognize, treat, and prevent postnatal depression / Katharina Dalton ; with Wendy Holton.

Author

Dalton, Katharina, 1916-2004

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Holton, Wendy M.

Description

xiii, 206 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Discusses the role of hormones, the action of progesterone, depression, chronic fatigue, irritability, lack of sex drive, infanticide and homicide, risk factors, premenstrual syndrome, and various treatments.

Subject

• Adjustment Disorders
• Postpartum depression
• Puerperal Disorders
• Puerperal psychoses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of figures -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The changes of pregnancy -- 3. Progesterone -- its molecules and receptors -- 4. The blues -- 5. Black depression -- 6. Endless exhaustion -- 7. Irrational irritability -- 8. Not tonight, Josephine -- 9. Psychosis -- 10. Infanticide and homicide -- 11. Tales of three mothers -- 12. Maternal behaviour in animals -- 13. Who is at risk? -- 14. Premenstrual syndrome -- 15. Treat the cause not the symptoms -- 16. Progesterone preventive treatment -- 17. Stress -- can we ease it? -- 18. The medical team -- 19. The three-hourly starch diet -- 20. Careers and motherhood -- 21. And fathers too -- 22. We all can help -- 23. A way ahead -- Useful addresses -- Further reading -- Some publications by Katharina Dalton -- Publications by Wendy Holton -- Glossary of drugs -- Glossary -- Index.

ISBN

0192861859

LCCN

^^^95049288^

OCLC

33819108

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library