One in ten women suffers from an episode of significant depression following the birth of a baby. These depressions can have a profoundly negative effect on the quality of the mother-infant relationship and, in turn, on the course of child development itself. The first book in a decade to deal exclusively with the impact of postpartum depression on child development, this groundbreaking volume brings together rigorous and sophisticated research from leading authorities in the field. Table of Contents
Foreword, Paykel
Preface
I. Introduction to Postpartum Depressive Disorders
1. The Nature of Postpartum Depressive Disorders, O'Hara
II. The Architecture of Mother-Infant Interactions and the Implications for Postpartum Depression
2. Fragile Aspects of Early Social Integration, H. Papousek and M. Papousek
3. Depressed Mothers and Infants: Failure to Form Dyadic States of Consciousness, Tronick and Weinberg
III. Comparative Studies of the Impact of Postpartum Depression on Child Development
4. Postpartum Depression and Cognitive Development, Hay
5. The Role of Infant and Maternal Factors in Postpartum Depression, Mother Infant Interactions, and Infant Outcomes, Murray and Cooper
6. Maternal Cognitions as Mediators of Child Outcomes in the Context of Postpartum Depression, Teti and Gelfand
7. The Timing and Chronicity of Postpartum Depression: Implications for Infant Development, Campbell and Cohn
IV. The Treatment of Postpartum Depression and Associated Mother-Infant Disturbances
8. The Impact of Psychological Treatments of Postpartum Depression on Maternal Mood and Infant Development, Cooper and Murray
9. The Treatment of Depressed Mothers and Their Infants, Field
10. Psychodynamic Perspectives on the Treatment of Postpartum Depression, Cramer
V. Postpartum Psychosis
11. The Impact of Postpartum Affective Psychosis on the Child, Hipwell and Kumar Afterword: Maternal Depression and Infant Development: Cause and Consequence; Sensitivity and Specificity, Rutter from the publisher's website |
