Marce Society

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The Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health

Dedicated to supporting research and assistance surrounding prenatal & postpartum mental health for mothers, fathers and their babies.

The Marcé Society was formed at an International Conference in 1980. The purpose of that conference was to bring together different strands of research in puerperal mental disorders. It was recognised that there needed to be a forum to discuss puerperal mental illness in its broadest sense and a Society was formed. The Society was named after Louis Victor Marcé, a French psychiatrist who wrote the first treatise entirely devoted to puerperal mental illness, published in 1858.

The principal aim of the Society is to promote, facilitate and communicate about research into all aspects of the mental health of women, their infants and partners around the time of childbirth. This involves a broad range of research activities ranging from basic science through to health services research.

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Some interesting research cited here:

www.facebook.com/pages/The-International-Marc%C3%A9-Society/123364077694228


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[monica]

I have like the marce society on fb. Makes very interesting reading as there are so many different issues surrounding pni. The latest post was about research on the effects of acupuncture on pni. In a trial of 85 women with pni (half having acupuncture the other half meds) the improvement was the same in both groups and also the group with acupncture showed no adverse side effects where as there were some in the meds group. This states that acupuncture is as effective as meds. Im a little bit sceptical about this however I had acupuncture for some of my physical pni symptoms and it worked wonders on alleviating this. AS a consequence I felt massively better. Unfortuntately I had to pay for thsi privately but it was worth every penny!

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It's not a great trial. It's just as likely that the opportunity to talk during the acupuncture determines the difference. :-)

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Cause, symptom, detection, diagnosis, treatment - so diverse and often so complicated; if nothing else the range of research studies and findings show how complex post natal illness is. x

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Insights on PTSD

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150109123321.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily/mind_brain/depression+(Depression+News+--+ScienceDaily)