[Treatment of puerperal mental disorders and dysfunctioning of the early mother-child relation at the maternity of the General Hospital Center of Charleville-Mźières].

The psychiatric care of the motherhood disorders and of their consequences over the early mother-child relation has become necessary from P.C. Racamier's writings and after studies about maltreated young children. Maltreatment has been defined by us in a broad sense, that is to say from marked cruelties to neglect, including various forms of aggressiveness and rejection. The Maternity Hospital, as a structure, has been considered as a well-suited place because nearly all the future mothers of the department are delivered there. The work undertaken for one year at Charleville-Mézières Maternity Hospital is clinically described, with its advantages and its difficulties, revealing the increasing need of a correctly trained multidisciplinary staff, even specialized, which could ensure psychiatric care over a period long enough to be effective.