Women's Experience of Postpartum Psychotic Episodes-Analyses of Narratives From the Internet

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 376-387

  Engqvist, Inger ^a   Ferszt, Ginette ^b   Åhlin, Arne ^c   Nilsson, Kerstin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c SKARABORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LITERATURE; MIDWIFE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; PUERPERIUM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MIDWIFERY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053572996     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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