This unique book covers an extensive range of topics in perinatal psychiatry, including evidence-based data, clinical cases, and international expertise in homage to Channi Kumar, a prominent figure in the field.While emphasizing the universal application of perinatal psychiatry, the authors fulfill the aim of informing readers about the important concepts in the field while familiarizing them with the challenges facing clinicians and researchers.This book is resourceful, and a product of significant effort.

• 1. The obstetric outcome of pregnant women with psychotic disorders ; 2. The psychoses of childbearing ; 3. Personal reflections on the early development of the EPDS ; 4. Psychosocial and psychological interventions for the prevention of postpartum depression: an updated systematic review ; 5. Pregnancy prescribing of psychotropic drugs: keeping pace in a contemporary landscape ; 6. Perinatal depression across the world: prevalence, risk factors, and detection in primary care ; 7. Perceptions of postnatal depression across countries and cultures: from a transcultural study of post-natal depression (TCS-PND), initiated by Channi Kumar ; 8. Development of perinatal mental health service in Kyushu, Japan: research and clinical perspective ; 9. Maternal depression and child health: the case for integrating maternal mental health in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programmes ; 10. Maternal and offspring mental health: from bench to bedside ; 11. Mother and father-to-infant emotional involvement ; 12. Specificity of effects in the association between maternal postnatal depression and child development: evidence from the Cambridge longitudinal study ; 13. Neurobiological outcomes in the offspring of postnatally depressed mothers: causes and consequences ; 14. Young motherhood, perinatal depression and children's development ; 15. Childhood and adolescent mental health as developmental predictors of the early caregiving of teenage mothers ; 16. The intergenerational transmission of stress: psychosocial and biological mechanisms ; 17. Associations between prenatal stress, anxiety and depression and child behavioural and cognitive development. Is it causal? ; 18. Postpartum Psychosis: DDS important clues to the aetiology of mood disorders ; 19. The biology of postpartum psychosis: a hypothetical model ; 20. Psychiatric causes of maternal deaths: lessons from the confidential enquires into maternal deaths ; 21. The Children Act 1989: success or failure ; 22. Child abuse in the United States ; 23. Not a native son