Diagnosis and treatment of postpartum obsessions and compulsions that involve infant harm

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 360-363

  Hudak, Robert ^a,b   Wisner, Katherine L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; PAROXETINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; PUERPERIUM; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84860299880     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11050667     Document Type: Article

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