Abstract:Pregnancy denial has a higher incidence than commonly supposed. So far psychological explanations rely on observations and interviews from individual cases. The presented case deals with a 13-year old mother with denied pregnancy, admitted to our department immediately after the birth of a healthy, mature infant. She was treated and observed interdisciplinary and for the first time we used psychometric testing in addition to medical and psychological treatments. Neither the psychological anamnesis nor test-psy… Show more
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