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Prenatal symptoms in postpartum psychotic reactions

A preliminary report

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For hysterical maidens I prescribe marriage, for they are cured by pregnancy. Hippocrates,Aphorisms—C. 400 B. C.

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This is a preliminary report in which common physical symptoms during the prenatal period of women who later showed postpartum psychotic reactions were found to be conspicuous by the infrequency of their occurrence.

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  1. Syracuse Psychopathic Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.

    Robert Seidenberg M. D. & Lebert Harris M. D.

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  1. Robert Seidenberg M. D.
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Read at the interhospital conference, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, at Syracuse Psychopathic Hospital, April 26, 1949.

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Seidenberg, R., Harris, L. Prenatal symptoms in postpartum psychotic reactions. Psych Quar 23, 715–719 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580097

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