Postpartum Depression and Child Development

by Lynne Murray (Editor), Peter J. Cooper (Editor)

One in ten women suffers from an episode of significant depression following the birth of a baby. These depressions can have a profoundly negative effect on the quality of the mother infant relationship and, in turn, on the course of child development itself. The first book in a decade to deal exclusively with the impact of postpartum depression on child development, this groundbreaking volume brings together rigorous and sophisticated research from eighteen of the leading authorities in the field.

Genres: Psychology

322 pages, Hardcover

First published March 21, 1997

About the author

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Lynne Murray is a Professor in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Reading.
Her work has focused on the effects of maternal psychiatric disorder on the developing child. In particular she has studied the development of
children of postnatally depressed mothers, and children of mothers with anxiety disorder.

She did her studies at the University of Edinburgh.