Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Women

Edited by
David Castle Professorial Fellow,
Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria Professorial Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical Professor, School of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of Western Australia Jayashri Kulkarni Professor of Psychiatry, The Alfred, Melbourne,Australia Professor, Monash University, Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Melbourne,Australia Kathryn M.Abel Senior Lecturer and Honourary Consultant, Centre for Women’s Mental Health Research, Division of Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK




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Contents
Contributors vii
Preface xi
Foreword xv
1 Pubertal development and the emergence of the gender gap
in mood disorders: A developmental and evolutionary synthesis 1
Nicholas B. Allen, Anna Barrett, Lisa Sheeber, Betsy Davis
2 Borderline personality disorder: Sex differences 20
Andrew M. Chanen
3 Substance use and abuse in women 39
Clare Gerada, Kristy Johns, Amanda Baker, David Castle
4 Anxiety disorders in women 59
Heather B. Howell, David Castle, Kimberly A. Yonkers
5 Posttraumatic stress disorder in women 75
Mark Creamer, Jessica Carty
6 Domestic violence and its impact on mood disorder in women:
Implications for mental health workers 92
Alison L. Warburton, Kathryn M. Abel
7 Depression in women: Hormonal influences 116
Kathryn M. Abel, Jayashri Kulkarni
8 Anxiety and mood disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum period 136
Anne Buist, Lori E. Ross, Meir Steiner
9 Pharmacological treatment of anxiety and depression in pregnancy
and lactation 163
Seetal Dodd, Jane Opie, Michael Berk
10 Bipolar affective disorder: Special issues for women 185
Shaila Misri, Diana Carter, Ruth M. Little
11 Mood and menopause 212
Lorraine Dennerstein, Jeanne Leventhal Alexander
12 Anxiety and depression in women in old age 242
Robert C. Baldwin, Jane Garner
Index 267