Ronald Rosenberg - Conquering Postpartum Depression: A Proven Plan For Recovery

The only word I could think of when reading this book was lifesaver. Women and their families will feel not only comforted by the up-to-date and practical information, but will feel that their lives will be saved by the knowledge that their symptoms can be so easily and successfully treated.

Alice Domar, Ph.D., author of Healing Mind,
Healthy Woman and Self Nurture: Learning to Care
for Yourself as Effectively as You Care for Everyone Else

This is certainly a book that will be on my bookshelf, and I will strongly recommend it as reading to any patient and her family dealing with postpartum depression. In this era of HMO medicine, few physicians devote the time needed to explain all the issues involved with this all-too widespread problem. This excellent book provides the extensive consultation that these women need.

Mary Jane Minkin, M.D.

This is a thoughtful, comprehensive, and user-friendly guide. Women struggling with postnatal mood disorders will identify with the case histories and find hope for their own recovery in the stories.

Anne Buist, MD, Director of the Australian
National Postnatal Depression Program

Babies need happy mothers. This book will help this happen.

William Sears M.D., co-author of The Baby Book

No book is a product of the authors alone. This is certainly true of this book as there are a number of people who assisted us, both directly and indirectly.

We would like to thank Dr. Alan Rosenbaum for his longtime commitment to womens health care, and kindness in mentoring us and providing a comprehensive treatment environment that gave us a start. Furthermore, Dr. Rosenbaum deserves special recognition because he has been instrumental in bringing the psychopharmacological treatment of women to the forefront in metropolitan Detroit.

Dr. Lee Cohen, director of reproductive psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been a source of inspiration because of his excellence in providing care and research in postpartum depression.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists also deserves thanks for their dedication to the health care of women.

Marie Osmond deserves a standing ovation for bringing her own story of postpartum depression to the awareness of countless women who needed someone to speak out and describe what it feels like to live through postpartum depression.

There are a number of people who generously provided us support and their own personal stories throughout the writing of this book. In particular we would like to thank Karen Schroeder; the staff at the Beaumont Hospital Parenting Center in Royal Oak, Michigan, which includes Beth Fryblewicz, Deanna Robb, and Julie Kouziak; and Vickie Rupert, Katie Conti, and Deb Farwell. We want to thank many other people whom we could never begin to name. However, these women and their husbands were open and honest in sharing aspects of their personal lifeall with the intention of helping other women and families. The women who allowed us to use their quotes and their often painful personal situations in the writing of this book deserve our special gratitude.

We want to thank the many obstetricians and gynecologists in the Detroit area who are compassionate, caring, and willing to listen to their patients and to send those patients for treatment. And we want to thank all of those people in the health care community for their receptivity to our team approach to treating postpartum depression.

Finally, we want to thank our agent, Denise Marcil, who believed in this book from the beginning, and to our editor, Marnie Cochran, who was the intellectual midwife who has helped to shape it into the story we wanted to tell.