[Psychiatric disorders during maternity. 16 cases].

This study, originally intended to identify the status of puerperal psychoses, has revealed today, on the basis of a review of 16 requests for psychiatric opinions coming from departments of gynecology and obstetrics in Limoges, that this acute psychiatric situation plays only a tiny role in psychiatric psychology associated with pregnancy. Post-partum disorders, with the exception of "baby-blues", were seen infrequently, the majority of cases involving psychological difficulties with or without behavioural disturbances or somatic decompensation, but the onset of which could have been predictable if it had been possible to identify the risk factors of psychological decompensation which our study was able to demonstrate.