Citation

Brockington I. Arch. Women Ment. Health 2016; 20(1): 63-69.

Affiliation

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK. i.f.brockington@bham.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00737-016-0675-8

PMID

27778148

Abstract

This paper reviews the frequency of suicide and filicide in a literature of over 4000, and personal series of 321, childbearing psychoses. Suicide is rare during the acute episode, but the rate is high later in the mother's life and in first degree relatives. The filicide rate is high in depressive psychoses (4.5 %), but lower in episodes without overt depression (less than 1 %), and some of these appear to be accidental, without intent to kill.

Language: en