Impact of Immediate Peripartum Psychopathology and Parental Psychiatric Disorders

Psychiatric illness is pervasive in the peripartum. Psychiatric disorders can be described as either preexisting conditions or de novo disorders. Both of these circumstances will be studied here with parenthood, parent-infant interactions, and infant emotional development in mind. We will review recent literature in the context of parenthood and the peripartum, on maternal mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and mood and affective disorders. Personality disorder, substance abuse, and eating disorders will also be included.