Perinatal psychiatry: the legacy of Channi Kumar

Mental health problems during and immediately after pregnancy are a major concern across the world. As well as affecting the health of the mother, they can have significant, harmful, and long term effects on the infant if not dealt with effectively.
Perinatal Psychiatry honors the work of Channi Kumar, one of the seminal figures in the history of perinatal psychiatry, and presents a comprehensive multidisciplinary review of the field. Bringing together the leading researchers in the area, it covers the causes of perinatal mental health problems, the biology of perinatal depression and its more extreme form, puerperal psychosis, as well as psychosocial and psychological interventions, hormonal and neural substrates of perinatal depression, and risk factors and epidemiology.

Carmine Pariante, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, UK,Sue Conroy, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, UK,Paula Dazzan, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, UK,Louise Howard, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, UK,Susan Pawlby, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, UK,Trudi Seneviratne, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, UK

1. The obstetric outcome of pregnant women with psychotic disorders, Louise M Howard
2. The psychoses of childbearing, Ian Brockington
3. Personal reflections on the early development of the EPDS, John Cox
4. Psychosocial and psychological interventions for the prevention of postpartum depression: an updated systematic review, Cindy-Lee Dennis and Therese Dowswell
5. Pregnancy prescribing of psychotropic drugs: keeping pace in a contemporary landscape, K. M. Abel
6. Perinatal depression across the world: prevalence, risk factors, and detection in primary care, Michael W. O'Hara and Lisa S. Segre
7. Perceptions of postnatal depression across countries and cultures: from a transcultural study of post-natal depression (TCS-PND), initiated by Channi Kumar, Nine M.-C. Glangeaud-Freudenthal
8. Development of perinatal mental health service in Kyushu, Japan: research and clinical perspective, Keiko Yoshida, Hiroshi Yamashita, and Shigenobu Kanba
9. Maternal depression and child health: the case for integrating maternal mental health in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programmes, Atif Rahman
10. Maternal and offspring mental health: from bench to bedside, Susan Pawlby and Deborah Sharp
11. Mother and father-to-infant emotional involvement, Barbara Figueiredo
12. Specificity of effects in the association between maternal postnatal depression and child development: evidence from the Cambridge longitudinal study, Lynne Murray
13. Neurobiological outcomes in the offspring of postnatally depressed mothers: causes and consequences, Sarah L. Halligan
14. Young motherhood, perinatal depression and children's development, Cerith S. Waters, Susan Pawlby, Stephanie van Goozen, and Dale F. Hay
15. Childhood and adolescent mental health as developmental predictors of the early caregiving of teenage mothers, Alison E. Hipwell
16. The intergenerational transmission of stress: psychosocial and biological mechanisms, Carmine M. Pariante
17. Associations between prenatal stress, anxiety and depression and child behavioural and cognitive development. Is it causal?, Vivette Glover, Kieran O'Donnell, and TG O'Connor
18. Postpartum Psychosis: DDS important clues to the aetiology of mood disorders, Ian Jones
19. The biology of postpartum psychosis: a hypothetical model, Paola Dazzan
20. Psychiatric causes of maternal deaths: lessons from the confidential enquires into maternal deaths, Margaret R. Oates
21. The Children Act 1989: success or failure, Simonetta Agnello Hornby
22. Child abuse in the United States, Margaret Spinelli
23. Not a native son, Remi Kapo