Motherhood and Mental Health

By Ian Brockington

This book aims to display the great variety of disorders which can occur during pregnancy and the post-partum period, which make childbearing the most complex psychological event in human experience. It provides a comprehensive summary of our present knowledge, set in a historical context, as a foundation for research. It sets out to show how distressed mothers can be helped in many ways and restored to mental health.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192629352
• ISBN13: 9780192629357
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.