Abstract
The relationship was studied between degree of active maternal mental disturbance near reproduction and the total number of obstetric complications during 169 reproductions for 99 female psychiatric patients. The primary source of information on active mental disturbance was the psychiatric records of the patients. Degree of disturbance was rated on a seven‐point general psychopathology scale, both for the 10 months prior to delivery and for the first 10 months postpartum. Degree of active maternal mental disturbance during pregnancy was unrelated to total number of obstetric complications. Degree of active maternal mental disturbance postpartum was slightly negatively related to total number of obstetric complications. The current data did not support the psychosomatic hypothesis of a relationship between maternal mental disturbance and somatic complications, nor did the data support the hypothesis that obstetric complications are the intermediating link between severity of psychiatric disturbance in mothers and increased risk for disturbance in their offspring.
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