Citation

Phillips MR. Lancet Psychiatry 2014; 1(3): 168-170.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2215-0366(14)70303-7

PMID

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Abstract

The perennial interest in the complex association between pregnancy and suicide is partly fuelled by frequent high-profile media reports about suicide--infanticides in postpartum mothers. However, decades of research on the issue have not produced a coherent narrative. On the one hand, reports about the high rates of prenatal and postpartum depression suggest that suicide (a relatively common outcome of depression) occurs more frequently during pregnancy and the postpartum period than at other time....

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