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Janice is a 44-year-old woman diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. She has two children, an 18-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl. This chapter, written following an interview with Janice, discusses the impact of trauma on motherhood and the importance of screening for mood disorders in the postpartum period.
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Janice, Noble, S. (2014). Post-Traumatic Mothering. In: Benders-Hadi, N., Barber, M. (eds) Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01318-3_23
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