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BOOKS BY LISA ON POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

Postnatal Depression:
A practical guide for Australian families

In this book, Lisa outlines some of what is known about PND, how women and their families are affected by it, and how they might best be helped. Topics covered include: signs and symptoms, how to get professional help, how a woman with PND can best help herself, how male partners are affected, and the impact that PND can have on a couple’s relationship, when PND can start, and how long it might last. Published, 2002.

‘This book is clear, practical, thoughtful, respectful and very easy to read. I have no hesitation in recommending it to families and their friends’.

Bryanne Barnett, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of NSW, and Director, Paediatric Mental Health, Liverpool Health Service.

Women’s Experience of Postnatal Depression:
Kitchen table conversations

Lisa (with Belinda Tune) talked to women, in their homes, across their kitchen tables, about their experience of postnatal depression (PND), and this book comprises edited versions of 22 of their conversations. Each woman begins ‘at the beginning’, and talks about: her expectations of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, and her experience of each; how she felt and what she thought, at various times; her experiences with health professionals of various kinds; what helped her, and what didn’t; PND’s impact on her relationships with partner, family-members, and friends; and how her experience of PND has changed her. Published, 2005.

‘. . . a book that manages to capture the essence of postnatal depression’.

Anne Buist, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Co-ordinator, National PND Program.