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A practical guide to the depression suffered by many women both during pregnancy and after the baby is born, with advice on identifying the symptoms and seeking the right help, for both women and their partners.
Author Notes
GORDON PARKER is Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of NSW, Professorial Fellow at the Black Dog Institute, and a renowned researcher and expert on mood disorders. KERRIE EYERS is a psychologist and Publications Consultant at the Black Dog Institute, Sydney. Gordon Parker and Kerrie Eyers are editors of the bestselling Journeys with the Black Dog and several other books on depression. PHILIP BOYCE is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney, Professorial Fellow at the Black Dog Institute, and an international expert on postnatal depression.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Professors and practitioners Parker, Eyers, and Boyce draw on their work with Australia's Black Dog Institute, a world-class center for mood disorder diagnosis and treatment, and on patients' own first-person stories, in this caring and comprehensive handbook for dealing with pregnancy-related depression. Initial chapters give a technical overview of screening, diagnosis, and treatment options, distinguishing between the baby blues that affect the majority of new mothers, the perinatal depression (PND) which strikes one in eight women, and the rarer, but even more serious, problem of puerperal psychosis or bipolar disorder. Adopting a kindly, respectful tone, the authors strive to eradicate the stigma of depression with practical and empathetic advice, but the truly convincing testimony comes from the many and varied stories of women working through guilt and feeling relief at asking for, and getting, help. While Australia's maternal care standards (which include home visits, mothercraft nurses, and mother-child centers) are light years ahead of the U.S., American mothers can also learn much from the sage demystification of motherhood and its struggles offered here. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
List of tables and figures | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction: From blue to black and beyond | p. 1 |
1 What are perinatal mood disorders? | p. 12 |
2 Risk factors for perinatal mood problems | p. 30 |
3 Screening for perinatal depression | p. 64 |
4 Diagnosis and treatment options | p. 73 |
5 Protecting yourself with realistic expectations | p. 89 |
6 Learning to live in motherland | p. 102 |
7 Do you need help? | p. 112 |
8 Where to get help | p. 136 |
9 Tackling stigma and mothers' guilt | p. 153 |
10 Managing a mood disorder and maintaining recovery | p. 164 |
11 Fathers and the extended family | p. 185 |
12 Mothers' strategies | p. 201 |
Appendix: Medications in the perinatal period | p. 209 |
Glossary | p. 219 |
Notes | p. 225 |
Index | p. 231 |