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The first part of the book deals with general relevant subjects while the second part is more specifically clinical. The initial chapter reviews such varied topics as maternal behavior in rats and rabbits, psychosomatic infertility in the male and female; pseudocyesis and the couvade syndrome are also well covered. There is a review of the psychology of human sexual behavior and its vicissitudes followed by studies of pregnancy in adolescence, childbirth as a family experience, and childbirth in a cross-cultural perspective.
The “clinical” section begins with a discussion of prenatal subjects. The control of conception, termination of pregnancy by intervention, and spontaneous abortions and miscarriages are studied. An interesting chapter on the cravings and aversions of pregnancy is followed by a chapter dealing with the psychopathology of the vomiting of pregnancy. The psychological management of the prenatal period closes the section on this subject.
A group of articles on the perinatal period begins with a consideration