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(Current Clinical Practice.) Edited by Victoria Hendrick. 241 pp. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006. $89.50. ISBN 1-58829-486-2.

Not infrequently, headlines erupt with news of a celebrity who has postpartum illness or the death of a newborn and mother as a result of maternal manic depressive illness. Exemplars of the misunderstanding of psychiatric disorders in pregnant and postpartum women are the public figures who chastise women with depression when they seek treatment and a legal system that threatens to end the life of a mother who committed infanticide while having florid delusions.

Not unlike other specialties in medicine, that of caring for pregnant and postpartum women with psychiatric illness can be complex. The recent published literature on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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