Many psychiatrists, obstetricians, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health care professionals have not been trained to adequately identify psychiatric disorders that present in postpartum women, and yet are often faced with patients expressing mental health symptoms that may lead to serious problems.

Postpartum Mental Health Disorders: A Casebook offers brief, practical guidance on the recognition and management of postpartum mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), psychotic disorders, bipolar disorders, posttraumatic stress disorders, personality disorders and eating disorders. Written by experienced clinicians, chapters are organized into collections of case examples and are designed to provide at-a-glance information about diagnoses, treatment, and outcomes with advice on when to refer to a specialist. Each chapter also includes an assessment tool to assist with diagnosis and a list of risk factors for developing postpartum disorders. An appendix of screening questionnaires is provided at the end of the book.

Gail Erlick Robinson is a professor of psychiatry and obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Toronto, and the director of the Women’s Mental Health Program at the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. She was founding co-director of the Women’s Mental Health Program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Robinson currently is the Women’s Caucus Representative for the American Psychiatric Association. She is a clinician and has designed curricula, taught, done research, published, and acted as an expert witness on issues pertaining to women’s mental health, including domestic violence, sexual assault, the adult consequences of child sexual abuse, sexual harassment, stalking, and the abuse of patients by health care professionals and other authority figures. Her special areas of interest are the psychological aspects of women’s reproductive life, violence against women, and women and careers. She has received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada Award in the Championship category for her work in women’s mental health, and the Alexandra Symond’s Award from the American Psychiatric Association for her sustained efforts for the advancement of women. 

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