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Those We Should Remember: The Pioneers of Mother-Infant Psychiatry

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This chapter focuses on eight pioneers – Hippocrates, Osiander, Esquirol, Marcé, v. Krafft-Ebing, Tardieu, Main and Douglas – who have laid the foundations of our knowledge of the psychiatry of motherhood and the development of the speciality of mother-infant (perinatal) psychiatry. The chapter stresses the value of clinical observation, thorough interviewing and long-term studies.

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    Ian Brockington

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  1. University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Joel Rennó Jr.

  2. Women’s Mental Health Clinic, Incestuous Families Treatment Clinic of Clinica’s Hospital, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Gislene Valadares

  3. Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Amaury Cantilino

  4. Brazilian Association of Psychiatry, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Jeronimo Mendes-Ribeiro

  5. Private Practice, São Lucas Medical Institute Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Renan Rocha

  6. Brazilian Association of Psychiatry (ABP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Antonio Geraldo da Silva

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Brockington, I. (2020). Those We Should Remember: The Pioneers of Mother-Infant Psychiatry. In: Rennó Jr., J., Valadares, G., Cantilino, A., Mendes-Ribeiro, J., Rocha, R., Geraldo da Silva, A. (eds) Women's Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29081-8_2

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