Postpartum Depression and Child Development

by Murray, Lynne; Cooper, Peter J.; Paykel, Eugene S.; Rutter, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781572301979
• ISBN10: 157230197X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-21
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

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 eighteen of the leading authorities in the field.

Author Biography

Lynne Murray received her undergraduate training in the Department of Psychology of the University of Edinburgh where she also carried out her doctoral research. In 1985 she was awarded the Winnicott Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Since 1990 she has been supported as a Research Scientist by the Medical Research Council of Great Britain. In 1996 she moved to the Department of Psychology of the University of Reading as a Research Professor where, together with Peter Cooper, she is Co-Director of the Winnicott Research Unit.

Peter Cooper received his undergraduate training at the University of Cape Town. He carried out his doctoral research within the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Oxford where he also completed his clinical training. Following a postdoctoral Fellowship in Oxford, in 1983 he took up the Cambridge University Lectureship in Psychopathology. In 1993 he moved to the University of Reading to take up the Chair in Psychology.

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION TO POSTPARTUM DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
The Nature of Postpartum Depressive Disorders	3	(32)
Michael W. O'Hara
II. THE ARCHITECTURE OF MOTHER--INFANT INTERACTIONS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
Fragile Aspects of Early Social Integration	35	(19)
Hanus Papousek
Mechthild Papousek
Depressed Mothers and Infants: Failure to Form Dyadic States of Consciousness	54	(31)
E. Z. Tronick
M. Katherine Weinberg
III. COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF THE IMPACT OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Postpartum Depression and Cognitive Development	85	(26)
Dale F. Hay
The Role of Infant and Maternal Factors in Postpartum Depression, Mother-Infant Interactions, and Infant Outcomes	111	(25)
Lynne Murray
Peter J. Cooper
Maternal Cognitions as Mediators of Child Outcomes in the Context of Postpartum Depression	136	(29)
Douglas M. Teti
Donna M. Gelfand
The Timing and Chronicity of Postpartum Depression: Implications for Infant Development	165	(36)
Susan B. Campbell
Jeffrey F. Cohn
IV. THE TREATMENT OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION AND ASSOCIATED MOTHER-INFANT DISTURBANCES
The Impact of Psychological Treatments of Postpartum Depression on Maternal Mood and Infant Development	201	(20)
Peter J. Cooper
Lynne Murray
The Treatment of Depressed Mothers and Their Infants	221	(16)
Tiffany Field
Psychodynamic Perspectives on the Treatment of Postpartum Depression	237	(28)
Bertrand Cramer
V. POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS
The Impact of Postpartum Affective Psychosis on the Child	265	(30)
Alison E. Hipwell
R. Channi Kumar
Afterword Maternal Depression and Infant Development: Cause and Consequence; Sensitivity and Specificity	295	(22)
Michael Rutter
Index	317