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Inger Engqvist

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Women's experience of postpartum psychotic episodes--analyses of narratives from the internet.

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing October 2011 Inger Engqvist, Ginette G Ferszt, Arne Ahlin et al.

The aim of this study was to gain an insight into women's experiences of postpartum psychosis (PPP). Ten narratives taken from the Internet, which met the definition of PPP, were analyzed using cross-case and content analyses. The results revealed women's experience of having unfulfilled dreams, being enveloped by darkness, having disabling symptoms, and being abandoned. The women's experiences...