Suicide and filicide in postpartum psychosis

Ian Brockington

doi:10.1007/s00737-016-0675-8

Suicide and filicide in postpartum psychosis

Ian Brockington

Birmingham Medical School

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Archives of Women's Mental Health
Early online date	24 Oct 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-016-0675-8
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 24 Oct 2016

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