purpose of this paper is to validate the hypotheses suggested in a T"" preliminary study involving a group of 11 inpatients a t Hillside Hos-pita1 who were suffering a psychosis associated with childbirth. A comparison of the ego structure and the dynamics of a control group of nonpsychotic women after parturition and the studied group will furnish the data for this evaluation. In the previous paper (9), the writer proposed several tentative hypotheses to account for the pathological reactions in women as a consequence of parturition. They were as follows:

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