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Postpartum Psychiatric Illness: A Picture Puzzle
by James Alexander Hamilton, Patricia Neel Harberger. 361 pgs.

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Postpartum Psychiatric Illness: A Picture Puzzle

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Qualities of Postpartum Psychiatric Illness

Chapter 1: Patterns of Postpartum Illness

Chapter 2: The Issue of Unique Qualities

Chapter 3: The Problem of Terminology

Chapter 4: Cries for Help

Part II: Recognition, Treatment, and Support

Chapter 5: Prediction, Recognition, and Prevention

Chapter 6: Recent Clinical Management Experience

Chapter 7: Maternity Blues: a Model for Biological Research

Chapter 8: The Mother and Baby Unit: an Important Approach to Treatment

Chapter 9: The Integrated Care of Hospitalized Women with Postpartum Psychiatric Illness

Chapter 10: The Provision of Services for Postpartum Mental Illness in the United Kingdom

Chapter 11: Rituals and Support: an Anthropological View of Postpartum Depression

Part III: The Organic Matrix

Chapter 12: Endocrinology of the Postpartum Period

Chapter 13: The Hypothalamic-Pituitary‐ Adrenal Axis and Mood Disorders Related to Pregnancy

Chapter 14: Endocrine Function and Hormonal Treatment of Postpartum Psychosis

Chapter 15: Psychiatric Manifestations in Patients with Postpartum Hypopituitarism

Chapter 16: Reproductive-Related Depressions in Women: Phenomena of Hormonal Kindling?

Chapter 17: Prophylactic Measures

Part IV: Unfinished Business

Chapter 18: Toward the Diagnosis of Postpartum Psychotic Depression

Chapter 19: Major Postpartum Depression

Chapter 20: Infanticide and the Law in England and Wales

Chapter 21: Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide, and Criminal Justice

Chapter 22: Postpartum Disorders and the Law

Chapter 23: Medical Insurance Litigation Problems of Postpartum Patients

Chapter 24: Husband Support: a Neglected Aspect of Postpartum Psychiatric Illness

Chapter 25: Information and Its Applications

Appendix: the Words of Marcé

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The Lived Experience of Postpartum Depression in a Psychiatric Population, in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
by Wendy A. Mason, Kathie Records, Michael J. Rice. 10 pgs.

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Dealing with Depression: A Commonsense Guide to Mood Disorders (Chap. 7 "Postnatal Mood Disorders")
by Gordon Parker. 182 pgs.

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Covering both traditional and alternative approaches to treating depression, this fully revised and updated guide outlines the many different types of depression, including mood swings, clinical depression, and bipolar disorders. Each type of depression is explained fully and is accompanied by suggestions for the most appropriate treatments. Simple descriptions and a user-friendly layout make this guide accessible for those suffering from mood disorders, their families, and the health professionals who care for them. Expanded sections on bipolar disorders and the influence of personality styles on nonmelancholic disorders are included in this new edition, and an online diagnostic test associated with the book encourages confidence in self-diagnosis and in seeking professional care.

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Preface to the Second Edition

List of Tables and Figures

Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter 1: What is Depression?

Chapter 2: Depression, a Common Experience

Chapter 3: Classification of Depression

Chapter 4: Clinical Depression

Chapter 5: Unipolar and Bipolar Disorders

Chapter 6: General Features of Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: the Experience

Chapter 7: Postnatal Mood Disorders

Chapter 8: Grief: the Experience

Chapter 9: Stress and Depressive Subtypes

Chapter 10: Personality Styles and Non-Melancholic Depression

Chapter 11: Four Vignettes

Chapter 12: The Biology of Depression

Chapter 13: Professional Assessment

Chapter 14: Drug Treatments

Chapter 15: Electroconvulsive Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Chapter 16: Cognitive Therapies

Chapter 17: Interpersonal Therapy

Chapter 18: Psychotherapies and Counselling

Chapter 19: Anger Management

Chapter 20: Matching the Treatment to the Depression

Chapter 21: Living with Someone with Depression

Appendix: Mood Disorders, the Artistic Temperament and Worldly Success

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Reducing Depression in Pregnancy: Designing Multimodal Interventions, in Social Work
by Maddy Cunningham, Luis H. Zayas. 10 pgs.

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Adolescent Mother's Depression after the Birth of Their Babies: Weathering the Storm, in Adolescence
by Donna A. Clemmens. 15 pgs.

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Relationship of Maternal and General Self-Acceptance to Pre- and Postpartum Affective Experience, in Journal of Psychology
by Lilly Dimitrovsky, Shirly Lev, Rivka Itskowitz. 10 pgs.

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The Nature and Function of Rituals: Fire from Heaven (Chap. 13 "Rituals as Prevention: The Case of Post-partum Depression")
by Ruth-Inge Heinze. 308 pgs.

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Rituals define crisis situations and guide participants through transitional phases of their lives. Since prehistoric times, they have resolved existential fears and reenacted the mystical event of experiencing the "fire from heaven." The essays in this collection help modern readers understand the nature and function of rituals in human society from earliest times to the present.

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1: The Nature and Function of Rituals: Comparing a Singapore Chinese with a Thai Ritual

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2: Ritualism and Contactism: Popularity of a Hindu Ritual

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3: The Ritualization of Conflict Within Post-Primitive Societies

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Appendix A: Ritualization of Conflict in the Sapalli Culture During the Bronze Age

4: Ritual Practice in a Sinhalese Village: Coping with Uncertainty

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5: Sinhalese Puberty Rites for Girls

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6: The Philippine Good Friday

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7: The Tupilaq: Ritual Carvings of the Dorset Inuit in the Eastern Arctic and Greenland

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8: The Function of Rituals Among the Buddhists in Mustang District, Nepal

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9: Balancing Modernity and Tradition: Ngada Rituals as a Space of Action

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10: Fire from Heaven: the Combustible Context of the Easter Ritual at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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11: The Ritual Core of Shamanism: Observations on an International Gathering of Shamans

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12: Altered States of Consciousness and Shamanic Healing Rituals

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13: Rituals as Prevention: The Case of Post-Partum Depression

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14: The Rainbow Horse Dance

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15: New Song Ceremonial Sun Dance

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16: Earth Song

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17: Trance, Posture, and Ritual: Access to the Alternate Reality

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Beyond Accommodation: Reconstructing the Insanity Defense to Provide an Adequate Remedy for Postpartum Psychotic Women, in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
by Jessie Manchester. 40 pgs.

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Self, Identity and Social Movements (Discussion of postpartum depression begins on p. 280)
by Sheldon Stryker, Thimothy J. Owens, Robert W. White. 370 pgs.

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Introduction: Social Psychology and Social Movements: Cloudy Past and Bright Future

1: Identity Competition: Key to Differential Social Movement Participation?

2: Identity Work Processes in the Context of Social Movements: Clarifying the Identity/Movement Nexus

3: Group Identification and Political Protest

4: Value Identities, Self-Motives, and Social Movements

5: Self-Change in Social Movements

6: Finding the Self through Others: Self-Verification and Social Movement Participation

7: Group Distinctiveness, Social Identification, and Collective Mobilization

8: Contemplating Collectivism

9: Self-Concept as a Force in Social Movement Involvement

10: Social Movements as Collective Coping with Spoiled Personal Identities

11: Volition and Belongingness: Social Movements, Volition, Self-Esteem, and the Need to Belong

12: From Shame to Pride in Identity Politics

13: Emotions and Identity in Women's Self-Help Movements

14: Developing Working-Class Feminism: A Biographical Approach to Social Movement Participation

15: Personal and Collective Identities and Long-Term Social Movement Activism: Republican

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