1. Introduction : mental illness and pregnancy / Veronica O'Keane, Michael Marsh and Gertrude Seneviratne -- 2. Screening in pregnancy for risk of serious postnatal illness / Roch Cantwell and Margaret Oates -- 3. Effects of parental mental illness on children / Cressida Manning and Alain Gregoire -- 4. Parenting : mentally ill mothers and babies / Gertrude Seneviratne -- 5. Infanticide and child abuse / Margaret Spinelli -- 6. Mood disorder during pregnancy : aetiology and management / Veronica O'Keane -- 7. Management of psychosis before, during and after pregnancy / Angelika Wieck -- 8. Management of eating disorders in pregnancy and the puerperium / Nadia Micali and Ulrike Schmidt -- 9. Management of personality disorders in pregnancy and the puerperium / Sue Conroy and Paul Moran -- 10. Post-traumatic stress disorder and childbirth / Klaas Wijma -- 11. Substance use disorders in pregnancy / William Flannery, Kim Wolff and E. Jane Marshall -- 12. Teratogenicity and psychotropic drug use during pregnancy / Patricia McElhatton -- 13. Breastfeeding and drug treatment / Thomas W. Hale -- 14. The place of psychological therapies in the perinatal period / Anne Ward -- 15. Models of health care in the management of women with psychiatric disorders in pregnancy / Louise Howard -- 16. Labour : effects of stress and psychological management at term / Michael Marsh.