De las locuras puerperales a la salud mental perinatal (Historias gallegas de los siglos XIX-XX)
- David Simón Lorda
- Jessica Otilia Pérez Triveño
- Cristina Carcavilla Puey
- María Victoria Rodríguez Noguera
- Elisabeth Balseiro Mazaira
- Manuel Fernández de Aspe
ISSN: 1130-1538
Year of publication: 2019
Issue: 64-65
Pages: 107-122
Type: Article
More publications in: SISO SAÚDE: Boletín de la Asociación Galega de Saúde Mental
Abstract
the objective of the work is to expose and contextualize the data found about cases of puerperal madness (or puerperal insanity) attended in the madhouse reginal institution in Galicia in this period (Manicomio de Conxo in Santiago) found after consultation of the clinical records of the center between 1885 and 1936, as well as data from regional or local newspapers in this period, related to the subject under study. We will review some references to the history of puerperal psychoses in psychiatry of the time, and some contributions from 19th century authors such as esquirol, Connolly or victor Marcé, as well as some contributions made by reference authors of twentieth century Galician psychiatry as Cabaleiro Goás. From these cases we want to make some notes about the changes and continuities in the discomforts and psychopathological expressions of psychic suffering in the perinatal period, which goes from the “puerperal insanity” of XiX to the perinatal mental health in the 21st century