Ian Brockington
Keynote speech: 50 years of 'postnatal depression'
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Born 1935 in the South Hams, Devon, married to Diana (a tribunal judge), four children and 10 grandchildren. Educated at Winchester College and Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, followed by Manchester Medical School. Degrees: M. Phil (London), M.D. (Cantab), with doctoral thesis on Nigerian ‘Heart Muscle Disease', Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of Psychiatrists.
After house surgeon and house physician posts, I spent 4 years at University College Hospital, Ibadan, alternating with training posts at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (with Professor Goodwin). In 1969 I switched to psychiatry, training at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. Between 1972 and 1975 I worked with the late R E Kendell on schizoaffective disorders. 1975-82 I was Senior Lecturer in Manchester, where I developed an interest in the psychiatry of childbearing. From 1983-2001 I held the Chair of Psychiatry in the University of Birmingham. From 1987 I developed a community-based clinical service for mothers, which received >500 referrals/year, backed by a purpose-built in-patient mother-and-baby unit and day hospital. Since October 2001 I have been professor emeritus in the University of Birmingham. |
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Internationally, I held visiting professorships at the Universities of Chicago (1980-1), Washington University in St Louis (1981), Nagoya (2002) and Kumamoto (2003). I was Cottman Fellow at Monash University (1988) and locum tenens Consultant at the Mother & Baby unit in Christchurch (2000). I was founder (1980) and first President (1982-4) of the Marcé Society (1980), and founder (1993) and first Chair of the Section on Women's Mental Health in the World Psychiatric Association. In 2009 I chaired a World Psychiatric Association Taskforce on child protection and the promotion of mental health in the children of parents with psychiatric disorders. I have started three patient panels - in the early 1990s what became Action on Puerperal Psychosis, in 2011 Action on Menstrual Psychosis, and in 2018 Action on Bonding Disorders. I am an honorary member of the German Marcé Society.
Published work
This is on African heart diseases, the classification of the psychoses, the methodology of clinical research and the psychiatry of childbearing, on which I have written 6 single-author monographs:
Motherhood and Mental Health (Oxford University Press, 1996; 230,000 words, 2,650 cited references)
Eileithyia’s Mischief: the Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy, Parturition and the Puerperium
(Eyry Press, 2006; 100,000 words, 1,350 references)
Menstrual Psychosis and the Catamenial Process
(Eyry Press, 2008; 85,000 words, 1,250 references)
What is Worth Knowing about ‘Puerperal Psychosis’
(Eyry Press, 2014; 90,000 words, a review of 2,450 works and personal series of 321 cases)
The Psychoses of Childbearing and Menstruation,
(Cambridge University Press, 2017, 140,000 words, 1,750 references, an abridgement of the three Eyry Press limited editions)
‘Bonding Disorders: Emotional Rejection of the Infant (Eyry Press, 2018).
Six presentations in Panopto on Mother-Infant (Perinatal) Psychiatry, The Psychoses of Childbearing, Bonding Disorders, The Pioneers of Mother-Infant Psychiatry, Menstrual Psychosis and The Stafford Interview.
Hirsch index 54.
Most of the books and the presentations are available on email request.
Published work
This is on African heart diseases, the classification of the psychoses, the methodology of clinical research and the psychiatry of childbearing, on which I have written 6 single-author monographs:
Motherhood and Mental Health (Oxford University Press, 1996; 230,000 words, 2,650 cited references)
Eileithyia’s Mischief: the Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy, Parturition and the Puerperium
(Eyry Press, 2006; 100,000 words, 1,350 references)
Menstrual Psychosis and the Catamenial Process
(Eyry Press, 2008; 85,000 words, 1,250 references)
What is Worth Knowing about ‘Puerperal Psychosis’
(Eyry Press, 2014; 90,000 words, a review of 2,450 works and personal series of 321 cases)
The Psychoses of Childbearing and Menstruation,
(Cambridge University Press, 2017, 140,000 words, 1,750 references, an abridgement of the three Eyry Press limited editions)
‘Bonding Disorders: Emotional Rejection of the Infant (Eyry Press, 2018).
Six presentations in Panopto on Mother-Infant (Perinatal) Psychiatry, The Psychoses of Childbearing, Bonding Disorders, The Pioneers of Mother-Infant Psychiatry, Menstrual Psychosis and The Stafford Interview.
Hirsch index 54.
Most of the books and the presentations are available on email request.
